Word: veils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blowup had been touched off by smart, ruthless onetime Premier André Tardieu, now a Minister of State (without portfolio), who thought he saw his chance to stage a political comeback by posing as the one Cabinet Minister who would "speak the truth about Stavisky" and tear the veil of official discretion...
...destitute. The Motion Picture Relief Fund contributes money for the young woman's support. Friends send baskets of food and money for medicine. Only time she leaves her room is when she is carried or wheeled to a beach. Always, indoors or out, she wears a veil over her eyes. Her doctor-father and medical consultants* believe that Edwina Booth suffers from some little-known African ailment contracted "on location." They also believe that the doctors of the U. S. schools of tropical medicine (Tulane, Harvard, Columbia) know less about such things than do the staff of London...
...Yard comes a new denizen of field and forest, a beast long since missing from urban confines. The how and wherefore of its appearance will always remain hidden in the shrouds of mystery, but as to its disappearance no stately veil shall long hang heavy there. Complacent bovines were once, and perhaps still may be allowed to roam gracefully through the greensward, and unmolested give their milk for Harvard, but birds and even beasts of other colors are ruthlessly driven from the protecting shelter, not, alas, out merely into the humdrum whirl of exhaust-filled urbanity, but straightway to meet...
...Trier, Nuremberg, Prague, Paris, Milan and Monza. A lance thought to be the one with which Longinus, Roman centurion, pierced Christ's side while he hung on the cross, is preserved at St. Peter's. Unduplicated anywhere outside of St. Peter's is Veronica's veil on which Christ wiped his face and left its image...
...presence. A moment before the speech was to begin a slight rustling was heard on the edge of the crowd and those who watched closely saw detecting at its very height. The worthy Colonel emerged most silently from the bushes, sneaked up to the statue and peered under the veil. Apparently disappointed he dropped it back into place and crept off. The search goes...