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Word: veils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compromise the real significance of the story of Samson and Deliah. Not the moral side, however. He gives us the bald sexual narrative in all its conspicuousness. The sapping of the powerful muscular strength of the giant because of his infatuation for philistine women is hardly pleasant when the veil of old narrative in directness is stripped aside. Especially when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Early Autumn Novels | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Veil of Happiness. Sacred peacocks, fairyland gardens, a blind poet-philosopher hopelessly in love, figure in this Chinese fantasy based on a novel by war-time Premier Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau. It was filmed in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Invasion | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...veil of optimism that has hung over the camp of the CRIMSON baseball team was rudely rent yesterday by loud reports of internal trouble in the battery. The pitcher and catcher, known to teammates and fans as Frankie and Johnnie, have always been as close as the 60 feet between the plate and the box permitted, but a disagreement over a disputed passage in the poems of T. S. Eliot '10 has led, it is reported to a serious personal breach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPAPER NINE DISRUPTED BY INTERNAL CATASTROPHES | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Victorian England saw Charles Lutwidge Dodgson as a promising young mathematics lecturer at Oxford with his treatises attracting attention in academic circles. When in an unguarded moment he wrote "Alice in Wonderland," the use of a pseudonym did not serve to veil the identity of the author. He was annoyed at his trivialities attracting public notice--so annoyed that he snubbed the great Victoria when she manifested interest. He did not wish his professional career blighted by a light comedy reputation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JABBERWOCKY | 4/4/1928 | See Source »

Meanwhile, at Barwaha, the nuptials had been completed by the ceremony of withdrawing a veil from between the lovers, a fire ceremony, and a rite which consisted in winding around the bodies of the bride and bridegroom a single symbolic, yellow cord. Lastly, the wedded couple descended from their marriage pavilion into the open and called to witness that they are man and wife some 500 wedding guests and the Stars, Moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stars, Moon, Sun | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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