Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sporadic threats of a new war memorial chapel to replace Appleton have once more started to rustle through labyrinths of Harvard. These innuendos rise and fall with the regularity of a tooth ache coming from a sore spot long known but little attended to. Behind the curtain that obscures the actual facts there remains one substantial fact, and that is that at present there are funds in the hands of a committee, but this money is inadequate...
...tenderly raises a brood of illegitimate children. After 20 years her husband, whom she has never ceased to love, returns. Sister Mary scorns him. Then her firstborn, Unex (so named because he was unexpectedly born in the middle of a road), dies and in a loud wail, as the curtain falls, Sister Mary finally makes known her contrition. Ethel Barrymore Colt, as one of Sister Mary's daughters, makes four appearances, speaks a few lines in the last...
Asked about the purdali (screen or curtain) concealing his women, a Maharaja who forbade mention of his name said: "The purdah is a mark of gentility. A purdah woman would be discarded at once by her husband if he discovered she had shown her face to a stranger. However there are exceptions. The custom has been broken by the reigning family of Gondal...
...industrialist has compromised himself for the first time in his life with a young stenographer. The stenographer goes away with a clerk who, knowing himself about to die, is cheerfully spending his life's savings. As the curtain falls a prophetic doctor is still seated grimly in the lobby, the desk clerk is notified that his wife has finally had her baby, and a traveler comes in to occupy the room in which the killing took place...
...from her appearance when she is occupied or doing something she likes-for instance, driving an automobile as fast as it can go. The Well of Romance. Somewhere between the opening chorus and the final curtain of The Well of Romance, Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) forgot that he had set out to write a burlesque comic opera and settled down to hammer out the sort of entertainment which used to be so admirably handled by Johann Strauss and Franz Lehar but whose present day imitations are so consistently lustreless. That Mr. Sturges originally intended to poke fun at oldtime operetta...