Word: veil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have confidence, however, that when the ntelligent, the patriotic, and the well-to-do, as .veil as the plain people, face the real issue, vhen they see whither we are tending in mak-ng fun of the law and of its violation, all of vhich tends to lead to support those who are engaged in violating it, when they realize that others not so patriotic, and who are evilly-minded are only too glad to bring about a demoralization of all law, as the open violations of the liquor law necessarily tend to do, then I believe we shall rouse...
...with the author's real name, however, was this book published. It was signed with the nom de plume "Analyticus." Demands by men written up in it moved the publisher, Brentano, last week to draw aside the veil of anonymity...
...decision of the Harvard Athletic Association to abandon the Yale football rally has simple implications, every one of them optimistic. More than a veil of smoke has clouded the rallies of the past two years. There has been enthusiasm, but it has been of a fragile artificiality that could not endure, for instance, night air. The hortatory experts have played to houses that only an invoked loyalty could lift above tepidity...
...know how hasty she was. She put her hands in mine in that confiding way which is either the best or worst thing in women ? she was dressed in black velvet with a white ruff, and from her neck a thin white veil was flying?and so we came to the bazaar?and by the longest route. Then I did a foolish thing. I asked her whether she would buy some little article for herself?and at that she began to fade away?sure proof that she was not French but Scotch to the core...
...been suggested, the charm of the book lies largely in author's pleasant narrative style, his genial humor, and the thin veil of sentiment in evidence. His descriptions of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are features of the work which is probably a great deal more profitable reading than most contemporaneous novels...