Word: veils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Circus de Paris moved on to Philadelphia, where a city ordinance forbids such animal turns as "Bride of the Lion." But Dr. Hamiter testified at an inquest that Dancer Cote, vexed by newspaper criticism of the lions' lethargy, had sewed a large bolt in the hem of her veil, presumably thumped George's snout with it. The troupe's manager. Eddie Pierce, announced that blameless George would continue to perform in the act, that three girls had already applied to replace Gladys Cote as his bride...
...Further, the "two women" aspect of the rule casts a shadow over the reputation of the unchaperoned lady in a manner decidedly reminiscent of a spirit which was supposed to disappear with the turn of the century. Next, perhaps, the College will show marked approval of ladies who discreetly veil their faces and wear low-heeled shoes...
...whites. Confirmation has been difficult because Japanese mothers believe that to bear more than one child at a time is a bestial act, frequently try to hide multiple births by separate registry of offspring, even by infanticide. Investigators Taku Komai and Goro Fukuoka of Kyoto Imperial University pierced this veil of obscurantism, sifted hospital figures and midwives' records, found that Japanese twins are indeed scarce: One pair in 160 births, as against one in 87 among U. S. whites...
...most important of the 1936 season. Possibly the high spot of the whole exhibit is Lucas Cranach's famed Venus und Amor, the property of the Nűrnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis...
...adults. Outstanding were a plaster head of a miner by 15-year-old Mike Mosco; a stone buffalo by 11-year-old Antony de Paolo, who was run over and killed by an automobile few weeks ago, and a watercolor of a vixenish young lady in a little veil, painted by 10-year-old Donald Liguore of the Boys' Welcome Home and entitled Going to Town...