Word: veils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Psychic and scientific investigation of the realms lying "beyond the veil" has been popular ever since De Foe invented Mrs. Beal, but the possibilities are apparently endless. The latest wrinkle comes with the announcement that Dr. Prince, director of the American Institute for Scientific Research, has gone into the wilds of Nova Scotia to track down a ghost which, evidently considering itself an outlaw, refuses to behave according to our preconceived notions of such things. And with him the good doctor has taken an "elaborate equipment of bells, cameras, flashlights, wires and white tracking powder". Shades of Friar Bacon...
...direction. "All the Conference has done is to cooperate with other nations in giving us cheaper wars. It has certainly changed the international medium, and has established trust and confidence where none previously existed. Hitherto each nation competed with its neighbor because each nation feared the neighbor. Under the veil of competition there lay a feeling of distrust, a lack of confidence. Now that stumbling block to international harmony has been done away with, but the Conference failed to touch the fundamentals of war. The present Four-Power Treaty is good, but only a step forward. It is good because...
...great poet is also a great philosopher, and yet he does not put his philosophy before us in the form of a Kant, a William James, or a Josiah Royce. For these men deal largely in abstract expression and make no great effort to wrap their truth in the veil of beauty. The poet, however, must deal concretely with life and must always fold his truth in the veil of beauty. A poem contains truth, but it must contain more than mere truth, it must contain the splendor that is always upon the face of truth, it must contain...
PRINCETON, N. J., November 4.--A veil of absolute secrecy was drawn about the long practice at Princeton yesterday as Coach Roper drilled his eleven in new plays which will be used against the Crimson tomorrow. The scrubs, employing Harvard plays, were unable to penetrate Team A's stone wall defense...
Just what the government will be able to establish is a matter of conjecture for a veil of mystery has surrounded the proceedings up to the time of trial. It is safe to say that M. Caillaux will be ready with a masterly defence for he is not a man to yield without supreme effort and now he is fighting for his life. Let us hope that the French government will be able to lay its finger on some definite action of a man, who, in the mind of everyone, has tried to betray France...