Word: veils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time have I confined my services to a single client, and in consequence I have been called upon to serve a great many different kinds of men&#!51;some of them good, some of them indifferently good, and others over whose character we will drop the veil of charity. Indeed, some of my clients, thanks perhaps to their failure to secure a better lawyer, have become the involuntary guests for fixed terms of the Nation and the State...
...Coolidge and a few guests in attendance; Princeton University offered Mr. Coolidge an honorary LL.D., to be conferred at Princeton on Oct. 4, on the occasion of a Princeton-Amherst football game; the Town Council of West Hoboken invited the President to attend a performance of Veronica's Veil, a "noted, instructive and sacred drama" given only at West Hoboken...
...argument: The Calif had no place in a Republic. The temporal power which was attached to his religious office stood always in the way of progress. For example, when it was decided that women should not be forced to wear a veil, the Calif objected. Again, it was impossible to prohibit polygamy when the Calif had more than one wife. In order to separate once and for all, the new state from the old religion, Abdul Medjid had to be ousted. As good Republicans the Turks recognized no authority higher than the Constitution. As good Moslems they would continue...
...gallery sat Mrs. Harding, in black, wearing a short mourning veil. With her were George B. Christian, Jr., General Sawyer, former Senator and Mrs. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey; Daniel R. Crissinger (Governor of the Federal Reserve Board), Dr. Heber Votaw (brother-in-law of the late President) Amos Kling (brother of Mrs. Harding), Mr. and Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy. In the Executive Gallery were Mrs. Coolidge, the wives of the Cabinet, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth...
...discerning, therefore, find in Mr. R. L. Goldberg the "disillusioned spirit of the grim, sharp-witted Schopenhauer"; in fact only "a thin veil of hilarity" disguises the very dismal outlook behind all of the so-called "funny" sections. But the genius of the artists has never received the recognition it deserves. It is time for the public to realize that "the funnies are animated with the spirit of Aristophanes, of Horace, of Rabelais, of Congreve, and of Sheridan, of Shaw and of W. S. Gilbert...