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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...
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...
...totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil...
Ambassador Sthamer quietly documented his protest, last week, by producing the official German account of the execution: ". . . Soldiers brought Fraulein Cavell from a neighboring house. Her eyes were bandaged and a black veil was placed over her head. While being led to the wall she tottered and fell in a faint, whereupon an officer, kneeling to aim, shot her. . . . She never faced the firing squad...
...Last Command (TIME, Jan. 30), does well indeed as the somewhat helpless heroine. Gary Cooper is lanky and effective as the able Major Henri de Beaujolais. The sand of the desert, a by no means unimportant element, is seen to fine effect, either snapping its angry yellow veil in the windy darkness, puffing smokily into the air after an explosion, or merely lying still under the sun like a quilt of shining yellow snow...