Word: glossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did Publisher Julius David Stern give texts for a sermon about "a $100,000 blowout for the cream of U. S. society . . . with all the gloss and gaiety of the careless, incredible, forgotten days before the Crash," and James Harvey Gravell's "way of showing his faith in the New Deal...
...decided at the end of the war that he "would have nothing to do with war" in the future. The paradoxical rise and power of organizations like the American Legion he traced to psychological causes, such as the tendency to remember only the pleasant things, and to forget or gloss over the more horrible aspects of war. Further developing this psychological thesis, he said that when attempting to outlaw war, attractions such as escape from domestic and financial difficulties at home, and the breakdown of social conventions should be taken into account...
...group claiming to be the more virtuous. Once iron Soviet discipline barred guides from accepting tips in any form but this order has now been relaxed, and for months the girls have been openly angling for tips. Last week came Intourist's first wide-open scandal, impossible to gloss over since it concerned not a nondescript tourist and his nondescript girl guide but potent Comrade Sergei Meshki, for years Chief of Intourist in Moscow and widely credited with being an official of the OGPU Spy Service...
...personal view that it wiped away the stain of technical default. Last week it was the painful duty of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, hawk-nosed Neville Chamberlain, to explain to the House of Commons that President Roosevelt was no longer able to gild tokens with their oldtime gloss. The Johnson Bill, barring flotation in the U. S. of securities of a defaulting nation, had caught the President up short (TIME, April 16). Since he was not going to say any more nice things about tokens, why pay any more...
...thus precipitately doing away with a tottering anachronism which its predecessors have chosen to gloss over, the present Student Council will give another instance of the efficient dispatch pleasantly characteristic of its regime. Not content with mere issuance of the customary annual report, the Council seems actively to be investigating certain traditional grievances, long in need of correction, for the purpose of applying immediate and definite remedy. Chief among these campaigns is the vigorous movement, announced early in the fall, to eliminate hour exams for juniors and seniors...