Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibilities of the 150's going to England at the end of this year seem few. When he was questioned on this point Bert Haines smiled and said it would cost too much money, but he wasn't definite, and there have been rumors of an "angel" in the offing, which are unfounded...
...called his Muse. To the Greek poets, the Muses were goddesses who led a life apart from the bullheaded and goatish gods but were, like them, bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to hatch out a more personal and better world, the Muse turned from goddess to angel-like Dante's Beatrice, who spoke to him from heaven. But with the Renaissance, poets found their angels nearer home and less angelic: in Elizabethan times, on the streets and in the Court; in the 18th Century, in the boudoir or the salon; among the Romantics, anywhere outdoors...
...earwitness to the crushing rebuff of Roosevelt. . . . After this political execution of Roosevelt by the Führer, one is inclined to ask, 'Who would dare speak today about Roosevelt's message?' One thing is clear: Roosevelt's role as Europe's guardian angel is over...
...headlines are so big & black that they have ceased to attract attention; its circulation is not listed with the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Enquirer is violently anti-New Deal, violently pro-William Randolph Hearst, which has led some people to suspect that Mr. Hearst was an angel to the activities of its publisher, flamboyant William Griffin...
Owner of the Egoist Press, publisher of The Egoist, Harriet Weaver was a shy little wisp of a woman, terrified by the dramatic manners of the literary great she patronized. She has been called "an authentic but difficult saint." To Joyce she proved an angel. In 1922, to assure him complete peace of mind and concentration on his work, Egoist Weaver gave him a large sum of money outright. Most reliable information puts it at ?40,000 (about $200,000). With this gift Joyce's biography becomes largely a bibliography...