Word: aura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic President has ever had a better Republican Press than Franklin D. Roosevelt during his 23 months in office. By his adroit management he has kept most White House newshawks fluttering happily in the benevolent aura of his smile, if not actually feeding out of his hand. And through these contented correspondents he has kept most editors and editorial writers back in the home offices in conditions varying from hoarse enthusiasm to quiet neutrality...
...administration is one of the most conservative of recent years. Stanley Baldwin and Noville Chamberlain dominate Parliament, backed by a docile majority. Those men could easily place a member of their own party in the premier's office. Evidently, however, they feel that Mr. MacDonald lends a non-partisan aura to their rule without, interfering in any way with its program. Why he accepts this uninspired position is not so easily arrived at. Probably in 1929 he felt that a national emergency made compromise a patriotic duty. Since then the subtle influences of Mayfair and old age have lulled...
Thus it is difficult to see any real improvement over the old and admittedly inefficient general faculty meeting. While at first glance it seems to shine with an aura of super-refined efficiency, critical examination proves that it is only Old Faithful, paraded out under a new name...
...back. Bereft it is true of the brass plates which once carried the presentation inscription upon the doors, stripped of its ancient aura of presidential dignity, but secure in its memories, it chuggs haughtily down Quincy Street, and draws up once more before Memorial Hall...
What is, perhaps, the most aggravating feature of Mr. Sullivan's dicta is not the aura of the Union League Club in late afternoon, nor the pomposity of his crystalized oratory, but the insistence that these New Dealers are embarking on adventures whose consequence they neither guess nor consider, that these striplings are being carried away by the Fun of It All with no though of the implications of their wild brainstorms, beyond attaining the goal of oppressive collectivism. While it is perfectly true that Washington could do very well with a dozen economists above the stature of Messrs. Warren...