Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliantly displayed in Once in a Lifetime) and her young sister Myra. Surprised and shocked is Olga when her sinister onetime boy friend (Robert Gleckler of Broadway) arrives and, snarling out of the side of his mouth, demands a hideout for himself and young accomplice. By the time the curtain falls, Olga has shot the bad man, regenerated the accomplice...
...wind that had smashed Cuba (TIME, Sept. 11) reached the south Texas coast one day last week, beginning with fitful, stabbing gusts and a rain that spread out fanwise across the 200-mi. shorefront from Corpus Christi to Brownsville. The gloomy curtain rolled inland over orchards and cotton fields before the lappings and lashings of the wind. Long muddy-foamed sea waves licked angrily at the shore, tumbled into the lowlands. At Corpus Christi a giant steam whistle blew its shrill warning blast at ten-second intervals. Streets were deserted, houses and storefronts had been hurriedly boarded up. The townspeople...
...Capitol for approval. There was a short, stabbing outcry of pain from politicians but no positive veto action by House or Senate. Therefore by law the orders became automatically operative at the end of 60 days. In the name of efficiency and economy the President rang down the curtain...
...where the Passion Play was given in stereopticon pictures. The contractor Brothers McFarlane built it in 1878 on the site of a horse corral. When the mining boom spread away to west & south, mountain rats took Central City over. Rain streaked the Rhenish landscape on the Opera House curtain and the gaudy murals done by a forgotten painter named Massman. In 1931 the McFarlane heirs gave the sorry pile to Denver University as a landmark of Colorado's brawling past, past enough for Coloradoans to be proud of. But the University could not afford to repair the vast, draughty...
...international character of the Festival used to be its most striking feature. Tickets were sold out long in advance. This time they were still on sale 20 minutes before the curtain rose. Faced with a deluge of cancellations, Propaganda Minister Goebbels had proclaimed that unsubscribed tickets would be distributed to loyal Nazis. When Chancellor Hitler entered the Wagner family box the audience rose to its feet, extended right arms in the Nazi salute, cheered wildly, had to be hushed into silence. Mindful of strictures caused by the audience's bellowing ''Deutschland uber Alles" after the first post...