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With Sir John's pink face a mask of innocence, Mr. Davis hotly declared: 1) that the U. S. Delegates had refused to speak officially about debts to the British; 2) that they had refused to speak unofficially; 3) that when entreated by the British to give at least their private opinion on the attitude which U. S. public opinion, Congress or the President might be expected to take toward the Lausanne program* they had advised the British against taking any step resembling the gentleman's agreement or the Accord de Confiance...
Artist Grosz's picture of Christ on the Cross wearing a gas mask and Wellington boots (an illustration for the novel, Schweik the Good Soldier) got him and his publisher convicted of blasphemy in 1928. When Grosz explained he had meant only that Christ might have been conscripted in the German draft, they were acquitted...
Julian C. Levi also hung up a pair of foils, a mask, and a brass French fireman's helmet, trophy of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, whose disdain for the pompiers of the city is expressed in their marching song...
...sleeping" which the Hallams appear to get. Mother Hallam does not approve of this son's wife, her sculpture her tea gown, her furniture which "does not match." But the son's young nephew Jerry (John Beal, a capable juvenile just graduated from Pennsylvania's Mask & Wig Club) does approve. He approves so thoroughly that Actor Anders, on the point of losing his wife through blind maternal allegiance, gets his back up. against the family at last, takes his wife away An-other Language, cast and acted with intelligence, provides adult playgoing...
...entourage, 17 of whom had prepared typewritten statements for the reporters, describing themselves and the manner of their conversions to The Groups. Typical was the account of Jonkheer Eric van Lennep, Knight of St. John of Holland, who said of himself: "He used to live behind masks; a mask for the office; a mask for his friends, a mask at home and another for his social activities; but he has found freedom from all that, and more, in a God-guided and unified life. And having found a good thing, who would not pass it on to his friends...