Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interpretation of the charming maniac, Danny, Was breathlessly slow, building up suspense to a horribly incvitable climax. It is a compliment to his ability that, once the climax was reached and passed, the still held the audience's interest through to the final curtain...
Last week as the curtain came down on the Republic of Poland, the quarrel of Colonel Beck and Marshal Smigly-Rydz on a railway platform in Rumania might well have opened its final scene. Three weeks before, they had been the responsible rulers of one of Europe's major powers- its sixth in population and area. Proud men, independent and successful, they had reason to be proud. Philosophical Smigly-Rydz, shy and softspoken, had built Poland's Army until it included 1,500,000 trained reserves; deft Josef Beck, untroubled by accusations of lack of scruples, had maneuvered...
Shortly after that news, the Polonaise was heard no more from Warsaw. A curtain of German propaganda fell...
...cleverness, he could not have started more brilliantly. Nobody could accuse Britain's propaganda of functioning smoothly last week. It was clumsy, amateurish, slow-starting, gave an impression like that of a sincere but badly staged show in which stagehands dropped things during big speeches, and the curtain came down at the wrong time...
Landing in four groups in a bay to the northwest of Hong Kong, 1,000 men swept across the granite-peaked peninsula behind a curtain of bombings, unresisted except by a few peasants, some of whom were armed only with farm implements. The attackers, summarily executing any Chinese so much as seen with a gun, invested 13 miles of British border. Across the way on British soil, men of the Middlesex Regiment and Rajputana Rifles lined the barbed-wire frontier, alert for Britain's territorial integrity...