Word: masks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S Jan. 4 issue you tell of the late great Arthur Brisbane sleeping outdoors anc covering his eyes with a black silk mask...
...Aquitania, said: "The threat of war is so near and so constant and so inescapable that all England feels it. It is not something remote, as war in Europe must seem to you over here. It is right in her homes. I haven't got my gas mask yet-I'm not sure that I wouldn't rather be gassed right off and have it over with. But you cannot feel comfortable when you know that your capital city might be blown to bits any hour of the day or night and everyone in it gassed...
...Alas, he was not what he seemed. All he wanted was . . . her body. When Rachel discovered that the real Zanko had been his twin brother, whom he had murdered, she drowned herself. Old Baruch, who had been searching for her, found her in time to get her death mask made, sent it to Michael as a souvenir...
Excavating tombs in Egypt 17 years ago, diggers of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art found the mummy, swathed in heavy wrappings of linen, of a young man of Thebes named Wah. Wearing a gilded and painted mask, a red linen shawl, the mummy of Wah made a bright and cheerful appearance in its clean, neat bandages. The diggers took it back to the museum where it was placed on exhibition...
...living." Each of its five floors had one large room. On the roof was a sleeping arrangement, for Brisbane argued that if outdoor sleeping was helpful to consumptives, it must also be good for people in normal health. When the morning sun waked him, he merely adjusted a lightproof mask of black silk, slept peacefully...