Word: screening
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...Flynn's face on the screen...
...whole task force worked to screen the Wasp from further attacks. Cruisers and destroyers zigzagged like nervous terriers. When a junior officer grew excited trying to get in touch with the Wasp, his captain snapped: "Don't hurry them. Let them be calm." One of the ships in the screen kept flashing the submarine alarm by semaphore, as if the whole fleet did not know by the grim torpedo-wakes cutting in all directions what was happening...
...incidents, in themselves, did not deserve the noise which the world's rulers made about them. London and Washington obviously believed that Berlin and Tokyo were up to something. The welfare of the prisoners was of immediate concern. But beyond that some graver issue was hidden behind the screen of threat, recrimination and reticence...
Died. Mary Robison ("May Robson"), 84, veteran character actress, "dowager queen" of the screen and stage; in Beverly Hills. A small, sweet-faced woman with a diamond glint in her eye, she made her theatrical debut in Brooklyn in 1884, spent the rest of her life playing pathetic slaveys, sly grandmothers, iron-willed matriarchs, frowsy housewives and alcoholic old harridans. She reached stardom on the stage (in The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary) when she was 49, reached Hollywood stardom (in Lady jor a Day) when she was 75. Two disclosures followed her death: she was six years older than...
...powerful enough to cut through a two by four. Then he lit an explosive incendiary, which blow up a clothesline of Primacord, powerful enough to cut through a two by four. Then he lit an explosive incendiary, which blow molten magnesium several hundred feet in spite of a wire screen to protect the audience...