Word: shield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...count up what they have gained and lost in the largest course in the college. Always the target of a shower of slings and arrows, the course has rarely been pricked so hard and so often as this year. The instructors are tempted to hide behind an old shield, their lack of time to give to the students due to the painful crimping of the Department budget, but a large missile marked "disorganization" cannot be thus dodged...
Turkish marriage processions, in which the bride rides to her husband's home on horseback, with servants carrying a large, tent-shaped veil, to shield both the lady and her mount from public view, are also shown...
...that he can return them. After a happy night with him, Irene walks into her room to find the police investigating the murder of the chauffeur, killed by Vail in order to create a bloodhunt for Dumond, whom he suspects as his wife's real lover. To shield Dumond, Irene sails for the U. S. with Vail. Dumond follows...
...Cities Service's 37.500,000 outstanding common shares, sold not a single share later in 1929 when the market price rose 200% above the price he received in the questioned deal. As for the 1,000,000 shares of special stock, they were issued to Mr. Doherty to shield his management against the threat of "power ful financial groups" which at that time were circling hungrily around Cities Service. The issue has since been retired...
...needing a subject for a magazine cover, picks up the wife of a Viennese doctor at a masquerade, paints her in nothing but mask and muff. The muff is recognized by everyone as the one won at the masquerade by the doctor's brother's fiancee. To shield the two women, Heideneck invents a third, one Leopoldine Dur. There happens to be a real Leopoldine Dur (Paula Wessely), companion to an antique countess. The resulting farce is played with such subtle humor and skill that spectators are scarcely disturbed by the fact that all dialog is in German...