Word: veil
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...generation ago, such exposure would have been tantamount to public nudity. The wearing of the veil-derived not from Koranic law but, like most feminine fashion, from an instinct for artful concealment-has largely disappeared from many modernized corners of Islam, but in Morocco it has hung on to become a symbol of woman's enslavement. Inside the palace, however, sits Morocco's foremost champion of unveiling: the Sultan's own daughter, Princess Lalla (Lady) Aisha...
Slim, svelte and curvesome at 25, she has never worn a veil in her life. Reared in the European manner by a series...
...blizzard swept over the peak of Vermont's Mount Mansfield one day last week, a woman in a wheelchair pulled the veil from a two-ton marble sculpture fashioned like a huge dime. With the dedication of the mountaintop sculpture, a monument to the victims of the U.S.'s first polio epidemic,* the 1956 March of Dimes opened. There was the usual fanfare-the sort that has made Americans contribute more than three billion dimes since the drive began in 1938. But the 1956 kickoff was different: for the first time, the year was beginning with the certain...
...Back in England, meanwhile, Margaret's life seemed much the mixture as before. Looking a trifle wan (she was getting over a cold), the Princess ventured out to see a preview of next year's fashions. Stars, once often seen in her impish eyes, now spangled a veil pendent from her hat of brushed wool...
...like women are so well protected from both sight and air that they might well pine away. In addition to extolling the veil, she cries, "The exposure of the bosom and back is not only repugnant, but disadvantageous to nine women...