Word: curtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Jeffrey Amherst's forces will take possession of the Stadium this afternoon for a last rehearsal before they face the Crimson in tomorrow's curtain-raiser. This will be their first Cambridge invasion in 24 years...
...TIME, Aug. 24), it could not have been over 15 months at the most. Because I heard him speak from the stage of the Paramount Theater in Portland in May, 1935. The Marx Bros, had an act, "A Night at the Opera." "Harpo" surprised us all by making a curtain speech...
...Captain Grant Williams of the New York City police department was imported to Rockland County, handed a skull and other bones found on Cheesecock Mountain and asked to solve the mystery of its presence there. Sterilizing the skull, he placed it on an artificial neck made out of a curtain pole shaved down to fit the opening of the spinal column. Inside the skull on either side of the pole, he wedged two radio tubes to hold the head steady. The other end of the pole he fitted in a stand made of a soap...
...Palace officials said that Queen Mary, peeping unobserved from behind a Buckingham window curtain last week, shed tears of motherly joy as 5,000 Canadian War veterans demonstrated in extraordinary fashion their deep affection for her son Edward VIII...
...difficult not only to walk but to breathe easily. In all his daily activities he now is borne about in a sedan chair, or in his ceremonial sedia gestatoria (portable throne). Near the Benediction Hall, where Pius XI holds audiences, there has been set up behind a red curtain a portable washstand and toilet, with a cabinet containing first-aid medicaments. To this, and presumably to one like it at Castel Gandolfo, the Pope could, in case of an emergency, be rushed by doctors who are always close...