Word: veil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King, who has been writing since 1900, when he published "Griselda", has published many popular books, among which are "The Street Called Straight", "The Lifted Veil", and "The High Heart". Along with his literary work Mr. King has devoted much time to the study of psychic phenomena...
Peace? The veil has been lifted and Mustapha Kemal Pasha speaks for the Turkish nation: " We desire peace! " This is a propitious omen for the future of the new Turkish State, and, backed by real sincerity, it will indubitably raise the prestige of Turkey in the West. It is certainly a feather in the fezzes of Mustapha Kemal Pasha and Ismet Pasha, his Foreign Minister...
...most enjoyable comedy touches in the scene in the third act between the newly-weds, Ruth, played by Alma Tell, and Bill Elliott, played by A. H. Van Buren. Among other amusing line comes Bill's observation that "The way girls talk nowadays modest men ought to wear a veil...
...unplumbed centuries of time Egypt has been a whet to the imagination and a conjuring-wand for dreams. Since the era of Joseph and Moses the land, half-shrouded in its veil of mysteries, has tinged with its own strange color the thoughts and actions of men. Antony learned there the subtle, inexpressible charm of the East; Napoleon and his army stood in awe before its pyramids; Shelley drew a moral philosophy from a fallen "Ozymandias"; and the modern world stands at the newly-opened tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen and finds therein another Renaissance...
...pictures are on War themes and are intended to be a memorial to the Harvard men who died in the War. One depicts the departure to war and the other the return. It is the former which is now in place but it will be covered by a veil until the other is also installed...