Word: angel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...informally supervised by Langdon P. Marvin '41 and Harvey Taylor '42. Student Council representatives for Freshman affairs, but their books will be regularly audited by the treasurer of the Council. Kendric N. Marshall '21, secretary of the Union and an instructor in Government, is the Union Committee's guardian angel and Faculty advisor...
...write the Great American Ballet. He meets a Russian ballet troupe, falls in love with its gorgeous premiere danseuse (Zorina). When timid Junior, pinch-hitting as a black slave in the Russian ballet, gets scared and runs wild, critics rave at the new humorous note, and its "angel" orders the shocked maestro (Alan Hale) to produce Junior's U. S. ballet, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, in which he later does some neat hoofing...
...materials used by an artist and often reveals under-painting and preparatory workmanship which is not visible on the surface of a painting. In a picture entitled "Vision of a Monk" attributed to the Bolognese School, of about 1700, the shadowgraphs show that a pillar and an angel, were added in later years; similarly, an angel is shown to have been added to a 15th century picture, "Annunciation to the Madonna of Her Approaching Death...
...motive for writing a novel is explained indirectly in a commentary on his poetry: "Printing poetry is not only expensive," says Fearing, "but dangerous; it marks you as a public enemy. My first book [Angel Arms]disgraced me; my second [Poems'] bankrupted me; after my third one [Dead Reckoning] I was lucky to get away with my life." As his literary influences he names Composer Maurice Ravel, Painter George Grosz, Poets Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg. But no critic has accused him of imitativeness, except, at times, of himself...
...years later an angel named Moroni appeared to Joe. Introducing himself as one from the lost tribes who had emigrated to South America 600 years before Christ, Moroni told Joe the location of a set of golden plates in a cave near Palmyra. With them would be found a code key, or Urim and Thummim. Four years later, Joe, a giant weighing almost 200, began translating the plates.* He dictated to a schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery. God, said Joe, had revealed that Cowdery was to put the revelations into fit English. To a prosperous farmer named Harris he transmitted...