Word: veiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweat about the weather. Through a veil of haze, stars twinkle only dimly. It rains and we find shelter in a bamboo alert shack. Towheaded Captain Charles Sawyer, who is to lead our fighter escort, walks around with a haunted look. For seven months, over Burma, Siam and Indo-China, he fought in the old A.V.G.; then he joined the Army when most of his buddies went home. Three weeks ago he got lost in a storm, crashed his plane in the mountains near Tibet, escaped three firing squads of hill tribesmen, walked back into China proper...
...orchestra began the Lohengrin wedding march, dramatically stopped after the first four chords. Quick-smiling Mrs. Louise Macy entered on the arm of her brother-in-law, Navy Lieutenant Nicholas Ludington. She wore a simple deep-blue frock, with a matching halo hat that trailed a dark, waist-length veil. Her bouquet was purple orchids and delphiniums...
...Cambridge, Mass., a couple dressed in traditional wedding finery (the bride complete with veil, bouquet, and toe-length gown) took a trolley car to their wedding at St. Anthony's Church and back again, gave their autographs to the astonished passengers...
...buildings, the former residence of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, had contained a pool table which "the dear Sisters had seen no reason for removing." Says Author Chase: "It was a pretty sight to see Mother Mary Agnes, who shot a mean ball, leaning backward over the table, her veil slightly askew, while with her cue tucked under her arm she aimed swift and true for the corner pocket...
Last week freedom-loving U.S. citizens -heirs of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and a great host of heroes-had genuinely good reason to fear that Freedom might perish from their land. For last week Charles Augustus Lindbergh and Gerald Prentice Nye cast aside all but the last veil of pretense and, in the pattern established by Adolf Hitler years ago, sought to make the Jews a public national issue...