Word: halcyon
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...Junior Dance, like the old gray mare, is decidedly not what it used to be. Those who remember its halcyon days will verify this statement, and can add that since the war the spontaneous cooperation on the part of a class so necessary to the dance's success as a social affair has waned considerably. It is of course difficult for each successive class to believe that it cannot improve on the efforts of its predecessor. The paramount conviction is that Memorial Hall has, in this ultramodern age, proved the nemesis of the dance and that its success would...
...quality promised in the new University eating-place; there was simply antipathy among Freshmen to foregoing the doubtful pleasures of a cafeteria menu, and inertia among the upperclassmen. And there the matter rests. Indifference again dictates student policy, and even the pleasant pictures of Memorial Hall days in its halcyon are impotent to arouse dissatisfaction where none exists...
...went on, "is mentioned, and you think of beautiful patterns and colors of linoleum for every floor in the house. Hamilton is the name of a watch so accurate that railroad men largely favor it. Maxwell House is that fine old coffee served by southern aristocracy in the halcyon days 'befoh de wah.'" But "Ford?" Of what, asked the Batten Company, did the name Ford make you think? "To our minds the advertising of the Ford automobile lacked what we consider a very essential quality. . . there was no distinct, quotable theme." Yet the Ford Company has one product...
...South, which made so eminent a contribution to the art of living during her middle century heyday, has been facing an increased danger of sectional crudity incidental to her great industrial and agricultural progress. In the halcyon days of the pre-civil war period southern plantations were everywhere famous as centers of cultured, cavalier life. Remote traces of this somehow managed to survive the evils of reconstruction. The last twenty-five years have, however, threatened to destroy the few remaining vestiges of this life. The rising tide of commercial prosperity in which all classes shared and the recent influx...
...Admiral Hughes, whose flagship will be the California, will be apt to spend much of their time near the great major ship concentration base at Bremerton, on Puget Sound. There Admiral Robison, 58 "proficient at tennis", and Admiral Hughes, 59, "a fire eater of a friendly sort", will enjoy halcyon days...