Word: unmask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warrior-with-Gods, in "North is Black," fell in love with a rich white girl, was disgraced for cheating at cards. Taught by whites, he had thought cheating was part of the game. To unmask the girl's white lover, who also cheated, Warrior-with-Gods planned a fearful revenge. Waiting until the stakes were high and a large crowd was playing, he watched the game impassively, suddenly drew a knife and pinned the lover's hand to the table. An extra ace was under the impaled palm...
Speaking for operating companies rather than holding companies, the Edison Electric Institute remained discreetly inconspicuous long after President Roosevelt opened his frontal attack on the power industry. Not until last winter, after the President had rebuffed a "friendly" proffer of cooperation, did the Institute unmask its batteries. Last week before 1,200 powermen assembled at Atlantic City for the Institute's third annual meeting, President Thomas Nesbitt McCarter uprose to keynote: "If the Government persists in its attitude, it is up to the industry to fight for its life. The kid-glove stage has passed...
Lady Blakeney is actually guiltless when her husband first suspects her but circumstances force her into a misplay. Her French brother is in danger. The bad Ambassador of the French Republic (Raymond Massey) promises to spare his life if Lady Blakeney will help him unmask the Scarlet Pimpernel. Lady Blakeney does so, but when she learns that the Pimpernel is Sir Percy, she has a fever of remorse. She follows Sir Percy to France, gets there in time to see him neatly foil a firing squad...
...juicy story about French missionaries. Seemingly with full Government approval, closely censored news-organs shrieked details so lurid as to be ludicrous. Lecherous French missionaries, it appeared, have been seducing Japanese girls. The jealousy of two such wenches with respect to their priest caused one of them to unmask him to the police. An entire priestly gang has been making "minute topographic surveys of the Japanese coast with tiny cameras," hiding the films in French missionary churches. To protect themselves against the just wrath of the local Japanese populace, certain French fathers go about "guarded with drawn swords by Japanese...
...always, there is a little pathos in the sentimental farce. Could their steamer but cross the equator southward bound, what joy there would be for the "gobs" and the "girls" at the rites of Neptune, especially if that God of the damp and dripping should unmask and betray the broad, carmen grimace...