Word: veils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even more German would it appear for the Field Marshal to have given battle against this treaty of dishonor and enslavement. If the President really regards the Locarno policy as right, then must every German who is not soaked with black-red-gold or sold to mammon, veil his head. Then the Field Marshal President is become a danger for the national will. His name does not belong under this treaty. That at least does he owe to his fellow-warriors. We expect the Field Marshal not to sign but to fight...
...that deep down in the placid pools of my nature the really worth while, the golden ingots of my impressions are stored, forevermore. And when I am old and gray, and the years have gently laid the veil of life aside, I shall sit before a flickering fire of dying embers, and I shall dream, and out of the shadowy past shall trail sweet memories, fragments of joys and sorrows and ambitions. Strong, white hands, angel-hands, from muted strings shall lure bushed melodies, and once again I shall stand on the steps of Widener and gaze across the beloved...
...Starting in February, we will abandon all 'popular' or commercial plays, and put on such productions as 'Hedda Gabler,' 'The Three Sisters,' 'The Veil of Contempt,' and 'A Grain of Mustard Seed...
During the past five years, many nobles, on both sides of the Rhine, have taken hood or veil. The case of the Delbees is merely one of the more peculiar...
This codicil, or "literary testament," as the Post called it, was submitted to the Probate Court but withdrawn after a "high personage in the political world" had advised that no considerations of whatever sort should be allowed to withdraw the veil of secrecy enshrouding the testament...