Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aircraft carrier Ark Royal, anchored off Portsmouth. There was nothing unusual about the gathering except that there were present fewer officers than usual, more empty seats. Chief entertainment was a new British cinema, Trouble Is Brewing. The picture over, Lord Stanhope stepped to a platform in front of a curtain on which was painted a likeness of Dopey, Dwarf No. 7 in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. From one angle it even looked as if Dopey were whispering into Lord Stanhope's right ear (see cut). Prompted or not, the First Lord proceeded...
...curtain swings up on three spring House sport leagues today as the first games in both baseball circuits and in tennis are played. All of the eight contenders will got into action, and another large turnout in expected for all sports...
After a long lay off action will be resumed in House athletics tomorrow along three fronts as eight entries turn down the home stretch in the Straus Trophy race. Both baseball leagues, hardball and softball, and tennis pull up the curtain on their spring schedules...
...double sheet with a transparent filler or binding layer between. In the old glass the filler was cellulose acetate. In the new it is polyvinyl acetal resin, a synthetic plastic made from acetylene. In an automobile this flexible, yielding pane is something like a transparent, moistureproof, windproof curtain. It is expected to cut down the number and seriousness of highway injuries due to sudden stops...
...West. Courageous, spirited, good-humored and humorless, he seems in Allan Nevins' big (649-page), definitive biography to have been somehow distracted-like an actor who pulls the trigger but the pistol does not go off, or like a leading man who launches his great scene before the curtain rises...