Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-dozen planes, poked her way across mid-Manhattan. Presently the biggest of the planes began to fly in a mile-circle around the dirigible, spewing a lengthening white plume of vapor behind her. The trail of smoke dripped downward until it hung like a great white curtain completely concealing the airship. Paramount Sound News men, who staged the stunt, ground their cameras busily. As the Los Angeles climbed above the smoke screen and headed for home, the white vapor continued to drift lower and lower until mild panic occurred in the streets. A man riding atop a Fifth Avenue...
...threatened her, and still her mother's influence thwarted an almost materialized evil. In time Mary's son was sent to the house for a visit; the old warfare continued. With the outwardly insane but inwardly heroic death of Lucia, the last old lady. Author Spencer rings down the curtain on a ghost story that is also a subtly convincing psychological drama, a novel that might have been ghosted by Henry James himself...
...Secretary Stimson, "the first diplomatist who, though well aware that all great powers have their Black Chambers, had the courage, or was it naivete?--to announce that diplomatic correspondence must be inviolate." The dedication page mentions "our skilful antagonists, the foreign cryptographers, who still remain behind the curtain of secret diplomacy...
...room farce. But from this point on it develops third-act trouble. Father Battle's wife pleads with him. Mrs. Granger pretends she is in love with him, begs him to stay. Little Diana Granger wants to go away with him and be his mistress. At the final curtain, Father Battle just picks up his hat and walks off, as promised some 45 min. previously...
...lush bawdiness of her earlier production: "That dame [Cleopatra] went in for everything . . . she even went to bed with snakes." "I never turn anything down but the bed-covers." She plays the part of Prostitute Babe Gordon with a forthright enthusiasm, sometimes tempered by irony, as in the curtain line, after she has convinced her husband that she is not living with another man (which she is) and the husband has mouthed a few platitudes about Faith. Says Babe Gordon: "I used to know a fine poem about Faith. It begins?Oh, Hell! I've forgotten...