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Word: aura (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most such Chicagoans send their children to eastern colleges.* But they are city-loyal to the extent of attending an induction ceremony and they respect the aura of culture which the Chicago faculty casts over fashionable Chicago dinner tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Midway | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...were pompously hung and framed. Well-tailored attendants mingled with the visitors, distributed lavish programs. The lenders of the canvases to the exhibition included Editor Frank Crowninshield of smartchart Vanity Fair, Businessman-Collector Chester Dale, Dealers Paul Reinhardt and John F. Kraushaar, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn. They gave an aura of respectability to the exhibition which might have amused the little, consumptive painter. People who would not have been seen talking with him now pay $20,000 for his canvases, eulogize him over their teacups as a great genius. For in his day Modigliani was the butt of ribaldry. Derisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Modigliani's Mode | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Anne Forrest (recovered from her motor crash of last fortnight) facilely creates the calcimined aura of a midway strumpet and Norman Foster's Bobbie is sufficiently naif. But the emotions and events of William R. Doyle's drama are all obvious and hackneyed. Simplicity without beauty makes for mediocrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...peasant mass meetings throughout Rumania, M. Maniu has furiously denounced the Government of Premier Vintila Bratiano and skirted treason by dark hints against the Regency. That the leading opposition statesman should thus journey all the way from Bucharest to Monte Carlo for a conference with Prince Carol gave an aura of importance, at last, to that loose-lipped, irresolute young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Carol Loose | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...these methods were indeed resorted to, an aura of "pedigree" hangs about the documents; but questions put by the investigating Senators, last week, prompted a suspicion that the papers may be simple forgeries which have not even been burglared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Business? | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

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