Word: veils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...table were: the Rev. Dr. J. Leighton Stuart, President of Peking University; Ziang-ling Chang, Chinese Consul General in Manhattan; Tsannyoen Philip Sze, Chinese Vice Consul General in Manhattan; Mrs. Finley J. Shepard and Miss Susie Sorabji of India, dressed in a red flowing robe and a red veil, her native costume...
...Taking the Veil, 18-year-old Edna is very unhappy. She thought she loved Jimmy, but last night she went to the theatre and fell in love with an actor. Of course the only thing left for her to do is to take the veil. Then she realizes as she pictures a death in the odor of sanctity that she really does love Jimmy after...
...rarefied air of great heights, engine power and plane speed drop rapidly, yet the most effective fighting must be done at altitudes of 15,000 feet. Lifting somewhat the veil of mystery which shrouds its work, the British Royal Air Force gives news of tiny monoplanes, no bigger than a Mummert flivver, equipped with 320 horsepower and capable of 150 miles an hour with full military equipment at the greatest heights...
...shall not regret the passing of the Lexington Avenue Opera House as a temple of the muse. Its acoustics were bad; the orchestra sounded overloud and seemed to be almost a veil between the singers and the audience. Furthermore, it was almost as bad as trying to make your way to a Yale-Harvard football match to get to the entrance of the house. The street cars ran ceaselessly past the front, and there was usually a great jam of automobiles, pedestrians. And once you had got in it was equally difficult to get away...
Georges Clemenceau: " I superintended the production of my own play, The Veil of Happiness, at its revival in Paris. I reproved an actor who was playing the part of a god: ' Is that the way a god should speak ? When a god grumbles it is like thunder...