Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eyeing his brief case in the path of the cameras he tossed it aside and said: "I want to get this badge of bureaucracy hidden where it won't show...
Those who knew him well detected in it a hidden sweetness; but against the stranger it burned and glared, and guarded all avenues of approach. Startled it was like the eye of a wild animal, and penetrating. "peering through the portals of the brain like the brass cannon." Over it crouched bushy brows, and all around the great head bristled white hair, on forehead, cheeks, and lips, so that little flesh remained visible, and the life was settled in two fiery spots. This concentration of expression in the few elementary features of shape, hair, and eyes made the head...
...theory at least, required reading should not find any place in the picture; that is, if the principle upon which the entire adventure was founded, is to be adhered to. For this oasis originally carried with it the promise of freedom to delve into the hidden recesses" of a particular subject, in which time had not allowed the opportunity for further investigation or browsing in allied fields...
...receiving set was hidden in the shallow top of the table, one leg of which was equipped as an aerial, another as a ground. The phenomena were produced by the activation of an electromagnet which attracted pieces of metal cleverly hidden in the performing objects. There was even a small piece of metal concealed in the bit of chalk which did the writing, directed by a telautograph...
...Vagabond, poor mortal that he is in spite of certain academic proclivities, has hidden away in his mind a few problems and questions which from time to time come forth to irk him with their barbed amorphousness. And among these is the desire to know the identity of the seer who made the immortal observation that "it never rains but it pours." Could he but discover the name of that sooth-sayer, the Vagabond would--at least not wonder any longer and be able to give credit where it is due when the truth of the remark is manifestly clear...