Word: concealed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tall and muscular, he kept his hairless, perfumed bronze body immaculate, especially his teeth, "white as hailstones," which stood far apart from assiduous picking. He eschewed jewelry but put antimony on his eyebrows to sharpen his sight. He let a black wilderness of beard riot down to conceal one thin line of fur on his deep chest, but he clipped his mustache. On special occasions he shaved his poll. Divinely conferred, a large mole adorned his back...
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit! Last year every girl had in her wardrobe a jaunty little toque called "The Helen Wills." This year, despite the fashionableness of those big hats that make plain girls pretty and conceal the looks of pretty girls, so that it is equal for every one, Helen Wills retains the chapeau of which she is godmother. Her own mother, the handsome woman who warned off the Panama, is her "best friend." They go to luncheons and fêtes and their hairdresser together; together they receive the adulation of the public...
...Left, M. Edouard Herriot, for 21 years Mayor of Lyons, President of the Chamber of Deputies, leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, ousted from the Premiership (TIME, April 13, 20, 1925) when it was rumored that he had connived at juggling the accounts of the Finance Ministry to conceal inflation of the franc...
...that whoever had written your review had entirely missed the very important point that this novel was laid in Philadelphia and not "in old New England." It is extremely odd that your book reviewer should have overlooked this, as the young whippersnapper of an author took no pains to conceal it, in what I consider a very impertinent, if not indecent, book! Perhaps your reviewer is among those who do not take the trouble to read the books that they review...
Meanwhile, Irene?she of the lips, the eyes?glitters in her uncounted jewels, and wiser men than Masterson perceive that the glitter is not all seraphic. Among them is the stockbroker, Masterson's friend, who used to kiss Irene in her maidenhood, a triviality which she has decided to conceal from Masterson. She regrets, however, lightly, the possibility that he might kiss her again...