Word: unmask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maidish male (Cyril Ritchard). Against her, from the moment she arrives, is the formidable Miss Mapp, a manhunting, stop-at-nothing Nosey Parker (Catherine Willard). The struggle for primacy between the two women-Lucia's efforts to dethrone Miss Mapp as a tyrant, Miss Mapp's to unmask Lucia as a fraud-produces a series of mock-heroic crescendos and climaxes...
Unlike most lynch mobs, the men who beat and killed Negro Willie Earle (TIME, Feb. 24) were not hard to unmask. Most of them wore cab drivers' caps; several of their automobiles were taxis. They were almost surely from Greenville, where Willie Earle had been arrested after the murder of a cab driver ten days...
...paintings, of which only five were of value and authenticity). Try to expose this scandal, said he, and what do you get? A shellacking from the public prints. Sequeiros counterattacked from a different quarter. He reputedly joined Rivera and Orozco in consultation with a local soothsayer, who promised to unmask all their enemies for a modest 3,000 pesos ($590). At week's end, the deal was still in the making...
...Grady (20th Century-Fox) sumptuously swaggers into Manhattan's Technicolored past (circa 1880) in which Miss Grable plays a music-hall queen from London named Madeleine Marlowe. Madeleine's betrothal to a Duke (Reginald Gardner) is mucked up by cover articles in the Police Gazette which unmask her as the onetime toast of Brooklyn Burlesque, Rosie O'Grady. Rosie wreaks vengeance upon Police Gazette Journalist Sam McGee (Robert Young) by telling the rest of the press that he has wooed her for her fortune. She gets him fired. Journalist McGee gallantly retaliates by popularizing the Sweet Rosie...
Professor Van Steer delivering the Ingersoll Lecture, said, "there come moments by day and hours by night when each man must unmask and think of his own death...