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Although the Board will allow exam-bound Radcliffe girls to wear blue jeans, a long coat (length unspecified) must veil such trousers at all times off the Quad bounds. The "long coat" ukase extends to cover so-called Bermuda, or long shorts...
...weighty and subtle commentary on current affairs, Salome probes into the American scene under the veil of historical drama. A discerning viewer soon notes that the similarities between life in Washington, D.C., and life in Galilee are too broad to be coincidence...
...first, I questioned the film's taste in suggesting Mrs. Roosevelt disporting with seven skimpy gauzes. But even this is symbolic. Mrs. Roosevelt is unburdening herself of her U.N. duties, with a red veil suggesting the Russian problem and so on. By the time she has reached the French situation, there is only the draft left to consider...
...first time Tiger got a look at his wife was when they were getting married. As the ceremonial sheet was thrown over them, he raised her veil to sneak a glimpse and saw a teen-ager with "black, sad eyes, long hair, undeveloped breasts." Tiger was only 16 himself...
Then followed the awful sentence in which the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota tore apart the veil of infallibility that generations of adulation had woven. "Appellant was a single man (thus disposing of occasional commercial rumors of a "Mrs. Claus"), 51 years old (presumably an arbitrary figure), and...in order to bring him up to the average man, intellectually, he must be measured by a yardstick of considerable elasticity." Claus v. Hall Mercantile Co., 157 Minn. 290, 196 N.W. 261. We can sympathize with the hurt Claus, clutching frantically at his flaming whiskers, but the judicial finding...