Word: aura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Claims are easily made, easily written, easily read and just as easily dismissed. The fancy phrases and the shimmering adjectives used in framing claims often close the mind to truth and cloak the facts, giving an aura of reasonableness to empty conclusions. So, again I say, forget claims, son. Investigate impartially and thoroughly; approach the problem from ALL sides and then decide...
...Communist intellectuals, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey was more than a gentleman - he was a bourgeois Bolshevik. He exuded respectability, which - next to an aura of romantic criminality - is the quality middle-class Marxists most prize. Was not his cousin Biographer Lytton Strachey, whose bland ironies and subacid wit had done as much as any one intellectual force to sap his generation's faith in education, the church, the state? Cousin Lytton had knocked the notions of pre-Communist intellectuals into a half-cocked hat so successfully that Cousin John had only to pick up the pieces...
...aura of quackery surrounded homeopathy until some 20 years ago, when Founder Hahnemann was given his historic due by no less a personage than Sir William Osler. "No individual," said...
Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare; produced by Laurence Olivier). Since Sothern & Marlowe, no pair of actors has undertaken Romeo and Juliet with more of an aura about them than Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Last year Olivier emerged as a great romantic lover in the movie version of Wuthering Heights, and Miss Leigh, at the moment, is the most talked-of cinemactress in the world. Both are young, extremely good-looking, and they themselves are in love...