Word: aura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while history embellished, it was not supposed to conceal, the hustings. Election of the men he wants was Franklin Roosevelt's immediate mission. Along his way, Senators and would-be Senators crowded close, competing to enjoy the magic of his aura, the salvation of his smile...
Hudson's announcement was enveloped in an aura of economic philosophy, some-what different from that of the President...
...basis of that showing. Nor did the final result have any of the surprise clement that the Princeton tie of last year did. In short, the defeatist atmosphere is gone, and thought of that elusive major victory is now so near that it no longer has the aura of mystery and distance that it once...
...lifetime that Elizabethan poet-statesman-soldier acquired his extraordinary fame, and 2) why. despite the fact that his prose (Arcadia, Defence of Poesie) and poetry (Astrophel and Stella) are today practically unread and unreadable, and his career no more interesting than that of half a dozen forgotten contemporaries, the aura of that fame has clung intact to his name ever since. Biographers have carefully recorded the facts of his career (better documented, less clouded by legend than most Elizabethans), have noted that his death inspired more than 200 elegies exhausting the superlatives of friends and enemies alike. W?here biographers...
...four years of absolute power granted him originally by the German Reichstag, freely elected (TIME, April 3, 1933), Adolf Hitler is seen by all Europe as a portentous figure, no longer an upstart but a German Chancellor of almost Bismarckian stature, a figure clothed with the aura as well as the fact of Power. Thus Der Führer was recently painted in what is today his favorite portrait (see cut). Up went the Opera House curtain in Berlin last week, and the world strained its ears as Messiah Hitler shared with his chosen Nazi Disciples the latest revelations...