Word: veiled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these deeds were as nothing to his turning of the face of Turkey from East to West. The abolition of the veil, fez, the institution of polygamy meant the abandonment of the nation's Moslem past. The substitution of civil, criminal and commercial codes of law copied from Western models for the old sheria laws led to the abolition of special privileges for foreigners. The writing of a new language with a new alphabet made literacy a privilege of the masses rather than of priests and intellectuals. Turkey in 1938 is a westernized nation...
Even now I draw a veil over what followed; there weren't enough people there for a proper panic; I chiefly remember Gilbert Miller's stentorian voice from the centre of the stalls demanding that so-and-so (the organ pipe, not Wood) be instantly thrown out; there were also comments reflecting upon Professor Wood and myself...
...Fogg Museum is displaying nearly two hundred ancient engraved gems, chosen from the collection of the great archeologist, Sir Arthur Evans. These gems are far more than mere engraved seals, they are glimpses into the ancient world, from the bull-ring of Knossos of perhaps 1500 B.C. to the veil of St. Veronica in the fourth century...
...advanced ideas. She not only peeked at her own wedding through a carved grill but afterward posed for her photograph as Queen, a shocking breach of Moslem custom, doubly shocking because Her Majesty not only was photographed but posed unveiled! The moment she was married she should have heavily veiled herself, and Court officials desperately maintained that she did, but Chicago Tribune's, Alex Small was among those who saw otherwise, cabled: "Farida wore no veil at all, revealing that she is of the pure Circassian type, more beautiful than has been represented in any of her pictures...
...Marie Harriman Gallery, Suzanne & Friend (always in 1900 costumes) boating sentimentally on the Seine; Suzanne, as a barmaid, serving Friend, as a silk-hatted rounder; Suzanne & Friend as a couple of spangled circus riders; Suzanne crossing the Place de la Concorde in a very becoming grey veil; Suzanne as a ballet dancer; Suzanne in a striped jacket (see cut); Suzanne as two ballet dancers, peeking through the curtain...