Word: aura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seriously considering hiring a staff of gigolos for the College Inn this fall. I was talking it over with [young, blonde, beauteous] Mrs. Byfield this morning. They will have to be South Americans surrounded with an aura, of romance-ex-presidents and tall, handsome revolutionary generals preferred...
...wind blew fitfully and the rain spattered with the same display of temperament. The Vagabond shivered audibly. There was something large and ominous, and supernatural, perhaps, in the aura. He imagined ghosts and skeletons, rattling bones...
...people who live in the Beacon Hill section of New York. The young heroine, who has been scrupulously reared by three maiden aunts still living in the Mauve Decade, is brought face to face with the modern world by the advent of her cousin from Chicago. To gain the aura of respectibility necessary to pass the Victorian fastnesses of the ancestral mansion, he is forced to change places with a deputy assistant mortician, and put the finishing touches on the cremation of an elderly and unwept female relative. He not only completely changes the mode of living of the niece...
...local excavations. His mail stated that no remarks about such commonplaces as New York Night Clubs, Wanderings amid the Widener Turnstiles and such ilk would be tolerated. The letter expressly stated that this column should discuss "Quaint, Quotable, and Out-of-the-Way Spots Having an Aura of Originality...
Last of the trio is the much be-generalized Beethoven, to whom the name "Titan" was long ago accorded. An aura of worship clings about this tough Rhinelander who transformed the intolerable affliction of his deafness into mighty music. His impossible pride impeded the social intercourse he desired. He loved always unsuccessfully. His tempestuous affections multiplied troubles with loyal friends and an ungracious family. Yet invariably out of his greatest despair came his most triumphant works: the Eroica symphony sprang from misery that led him to write his will in Heiligenstadt. This biography succeeds despite irreverent handling of disputed material...