Word: shrouds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such is the atmosphere that, like grey mist, informs two of this book's* three parts. In such a mist events of the most personal nature loom up with unwonted significance. It is not so thick as to shroud details; these are handled gently but with such calm precision that close scrutiny will reveal no blurred edges. Fastrade von de Warthe walks in the great park, brooding, but her figure is seen clearly through the trees. Dietz von Egloff, with unrest in his soul, rides his black stallion over the estates when the countryside is abed, but the effect...
...Democrat must march with the squad, Senator Ransdell, bearded Louisiana interventionist, might add his patriarchal pep to the rear rank. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, who despatched six more warships to Nicaragua last week, all the while keeping a shroud of silence over the ugly hulking war scare, should also do his bit in the squad?perhaps a hornpipe. Finally, Democrats agreed, the very man to march in the rear rank, just in front of File Closer Kellogg, would be his former law partner, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Edwin Olds. Mr. Olds it is whom rumor accuses of successfully...
...Empire Premiers in England for the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) journeyed to Cardington, Bedfordshire, last week and were shown the giant air liners R-100 and R-101 now building under a shroud of mystery for the London-Cairo-Bombay air service scheduled to open next year (TIME...
...with the Consecration of the House overture, played too the early Symphony in C. In Chicago Frederick Stock led the symphony there in the first of a series of consecrated programs-played the first two symphonies and the triple concerto. In Vienna a monument was completed and the canvas shroud stripped off with fitting ceremony. In Manhattan at the Metropolitan Opera House the Society of the Friends of Music gave for its first concert of the season, the Missa Solemnis...
Wrapped within a shroud...