Word: veil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning; when the approach of June has such static effects upon your behaviour as to cause you to be on time for classes with both eyes open, though the rest of you be closed; when all these things culminate in a full dress uniform, a bridal veil, and a minister ... brother...
...President. Joseph Stalin will meet a calm and confident man. Behind his self-imposed veil of secrecy, President Roosevelt has grown steadily more buoyant. At times his face is lined and pouched with weariness, but he looked wearier a year ago than now. Today he is like a fighter in the tenth round of a 15-round bout. Plenty of hard punching lies ahead. But he has felt out his opponent now, and is sure he can take...
Frank Knox, asked in London his opinion on the 1944 election, declared: "I used to be a Republican, but I took the veil, and I intend to keep the veil until the war is over...
High spots: Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake sing, in appropriate costume, a little number called A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peek-a-Boo-Bang; Rochester (in a zoot suit) and Dancer Katherine Dunham give out with a strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower...
...John, the artist's favorite, the almost incredible detail of the long golden locks of hair might have been done by the hand of Fra Filippo Lippi, the veins on the hands and arms by the Surrealist virtuoso Salvador Dali. In Silence the delicacy of the veil over the sleeping girl's face, the pearl-like drops of water, suggested the Dutch masters. Milena's superb taste falters only rarely, notably in her portrait of her Royal cousin, which might have graced the shop windows of a military tailor...