Word: aura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sporting proclivities serve him well in Tokyo. He is a baseball fiend; so are the Japanese. His faculty for golfing in dignity and black shorts necessarily appeals to a people to whom dignity is everything. His impressively good clothes, grey hair, dark mustache, lithe frame support a slightly British aura of raj, accompanied by a Yankee capacity for work. He drives his embassy staff seven hours a day (a frightful stint for the Foreign Service). Many an Ambassador lets his staff do the handwork. Joe Grew peck-types his own reports, producing documents highly respected at the State Department...
...nose"; (of James Joyce) "an obscur whom everyone can understand." Picasso's critics do not like the way he pretends that nothing he says can have any really damaging effect. They point to this as one more symptom of spoiled-childishness which accepts the pleasant aura of fame without acknowledging the responsibility it entails...
...said Frank Murphy and left the chair with a saintly aura about...
Hockey summary: HARVARD JUN. OLYMPICS Patrick, l.w. l.w., Thompson Harding, c. r.w., Owen Winslow, r.w. c., Sullivan Jameson, l.d. l.d., Aura Houghton, r.d. r.d., Chapman Mittell, g. g., Donoghey...
...Manhattan art firm of Michael Knoedler & Co., quiet, old and svelte, has a quasi-institutional aura which many dealers envy. At least once a year Knoedler's puts on a "prestige show," a big loan exhibition of masterwork in which no single item is ostensibly for sale. Last week, Knoedler displayed against the black velvet of its inner rooms 58 borrowed pictures by three French artists of the early 19th Century: Gros, Géricault, Delacroix. The gate receipts were to go to a society called "La Sauvegarde de l'Art Fran...