Word: aura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once a conservative who believed that democracy had been a dismal failure, Editor Agar swung leftward with Roosevelt. His recent books are pious, eloquent, Democratic; his syndicated column, Time and Tide, has a resolutely New Deal aura. He takes his seat in Marse Henry's vacant office next January, at the close of a current lecture tour...
...horrible are the artificial epileptic fits forced by metrazol that practically no patients ever willingly submit. Common symptoms are a "flash of blinding light," an "aura of terror." One patient described the treatment as death "by the electric chair." Another asked piteously: "Doctor, is there any cure for this treatment...
...distributing its message from door to door. Any other group, whether left or right, harmless or vicious, would have met with the same refusal. But the mere fact that an "unwritten law" should crack down particularly on the more politically minded members of the university gives it an unsavory aura. No matter what the origin of this law, no matter what the original purpose, its present function is dangerous. It has almost become a stop-gap to the flow of ideas...
...Presumably some neutral country would supply the hotel room and presumably it would best be accomplished by doing the negotiating quietly and then springing the deal. Who would the principals be? Not Hitler, not Daladier, not Chamberlain. They could not meet anywhere obscurely, for one thing, and the Munich aura hangs too heavily over their heads...
...Eden, he favored appeasement until he lost belief in Adolf Hitler's humanity. Then he favored a British military alliance with Russia. Now he may confidently be counted in Britain's war-if-necessary party. Quick-eyed, anxious to seem hearty and flexible, eager to dispel the aura of his title by democratic .manners, expected to travel and speak more than Sir Ronald did, his assignment (in cold fact) is to follow up on the visit of King George & Queen Mary, align the U. S. as close as may be behind an Empire whose back is close...