Word: halcyon
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...practice of reproducing, under its title-head, a portrait, by some substantial master-folowed instead the example of The Dial, The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review by printing there its table of contents. There was little to remind the twitching ear-tabbed centenarian of the cover familiar to his halcyon days - the two roco pedestals that framed a page made acceptable for mid-centry boudoirs with a trinity of cherubs, two scattering flowers while the third his little round buttocks eclipsing the north pole of a small world wafted soapbubbles above the legend...
...last week by the police. They wish for magic powders potent to bring back an erring wife or husband; for herbs that will "Tie Down Goods" (i.e., keep the object of their affections from departing), for "Boss Fix Powders" (roots and simples that will keep an employer in a halcyon mood), for fusions that will win the heart of the most austere maiden. Throaty voices extol in music the virtues of such medicines...
...longer a national hero, the Judge, slight of body, poor of purse,* is left to fight the Klansmen practically alone. And reported as leagued with the Klansmen on this occasion are all the "forces of evil" which the Judge's reforms irritated in the halcyon days of Rooseveltian reform and Wilsonian new freedom...
...Democratic ticket". But everyone is not so pessimistic. A familiar rattling and clashing heralds the entrance of Henry Ford in the race; led by Ford and Bryan, the Democrats might make a truly remarkable crusade. With cratory and efficiency, good old-fashioned prejudice and plenty of capital, the halcyon days of party politics could be revived to suit even Senator Borah...
...remember, in those halcyon days of the war, Mr. Chesterton had delightful fun with one of his imaginary German professors who had tried to prove that Michelangelo was a German, because Michelangelo had black hair, and some Germans, too, have black hair. I am afraid that in his preoccupation with the German professor, Mr. Chesterton has acquired much of the latter's logic. If Mr. Chesterton's jests could be reduced to a reasoned argument, I suppose it would run like this: No man of Jewish descent can become an Englishman, for some Jews take Mr. Chesterton seriously...