Word: aura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President about to be inaugurated." Having settled that matter of precedent, Franklin Roosevelt settled down to what appeared to be almost such a workaday enumeration of the problems confronting the Government as Calvin Coolidge used to give. Chief difference was that the Roosevelt voice cloaked them with an aura of statesmanship. He mentioned that he would ask Congress for quick action to extend the expiring life of certain authorizations and powers (for example, RFC lending), to modify the Neutrality Act in order to provide an embargo against arms shipments to Spain, to pass a deficiency bill (to provide for Relief...
...fell in love with a highly proper young English diplomat, kept offending him because she was. not so proper as he was. History was in the making all around her, but she hardly noticed it, was not a bit impressed. "Personally, I shall never feel quite bamboozled by this aura of historical magnificence, nor whisper to my grandchildren about the great and wonderful things I have witnessed." Partly because she got sick of anti-Bolshevik propaganda, Lola was on the verge of being converted to Bolshevism when she had the chance of escaping to Poland on a forged German passport...
...time when Harvard looms high in the attention and esteem of educational and cultural men and organizations, it is gratifying to note how far this aura of prestige and scholastic sanctity has pervaded. Not only in the hearts of the illustrious and great, but also in the bosoms of the lowly has Harvard's flame been kindled. This little story, passed on to us by one who also serves, warmed the cockles of our hearts by its milk-of-human-kindness...
...Mawr, overlooks the fundamental fallacy of its existence, which is that college spirit is too worn out and decrepit to beget more than a weakling doomed to an early death--even with the assistance of Bryn Mawr. It does exist at a football game, and in a certain sentimental aura that clings round the memory of alma matter; but the conception that a university is one happy family, the members of which do the same things with equal enjoyment, went out with pompadours. People who are interested in hiking and hobby clubs will continue to hike; and no amount...
...moonlight, Wildfowler Scott will puzzle gunners in the U. S. where such practices are barred and only his "shoulder gun," in daylight, is legal. But U. S. readers will not long question the rightful membership of Peter Scott in best shooting circles when they read: "There is a peculiar aura that surrounds in my mind anything and every thing to do with wild geese...