Word: veiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novelist's wife is truly dreadful," but thinks much should be left unsaid on both sides. As to Dickens' solacing himself with an actress, he thinks that affair "remained platonic and Dickensian-the love for the sylph." Maurois would prefer to draw more of a veil than even Dickens did over the whole business. "In any case, does it matter...
...months ago Franklin Roosevelt discovered that Rexford Guy Tugwell had a negative propaganda value. Thereupon Dr. Tugwell's pleasant face was given a veil of political invisibility. Hence few people were last week aware that he was in Florida on vacation, recuperating from an attack of influenza. But Secretary Wallace knew. So did AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis. And many another was to become acutely conscious of the fact...
...music, they said, and about world peace. During his incarceration since June 22 in a Nazi jail, Musical Thinker Roiderer has asked for and obtained copies of Musical America and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. To Germans the Roiderer case is of vital interest because it tends to lift the veil of secrecy from Adolf Hitler's so-called Peoples Tribunal (TIME, May 14). The P. T. stands for that "New Justice" which Nazis have proudly placed above the German Supreme Court. Judges on the P. T. bench are all personal appointees of Realmleader Hitler. Five are aviators with...
...April correspondents were told that Der Führer would "lift the veil" from this Four-Year Plan when he addressed 1,000,000 German workers massed at Tempelhofer Field on Labor Day, May 1, 1933. On the historic May Day, the 1,000,000 assembled German workers cheered Leader Hitler to the echo when he roared: "German people, remember yourselves! We want to imbue, nay burn, into the minds of our people: German people, you are not a second class people, even if a thousand times the world wants to have it that way, YOU ARE NOT INFERIOR...
Specifically, then, under Cinema, p. 45, The Painted Veil, your premises are that 1) Mrs. Fane's marriage was loveless and ignoble at the time of her arrival in Hong Kong; 2) She committed adultery; and 3) Her marriage was neither loveless nor ignoble at the conclusion of the picture. From these premises you conclude that "the picture . . . can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cure-all." In other words, since the marriage was happier after the adultery, it was happier because of the adultery...