Word: halcyons
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...most prodigious prodigy is the heroine, Halcyon Day, so named by her esthetically-minded mother, who on her death left her daughter with relatives in New York. Little Halcyon, under the guidance of her governess, a spiritual Mrs. Rosenfeld, soon blossoms into an infant poetess, has her own little sacrosanct blue chair in which she composes "Us on Tip-Toe by the Freckled Beach," and the even more famous "Lines to My Lover in Hell." When Halcyon's father, a hearty retired sea-captain, comes after her he is forced to wait with a delegation of Halcyon...
...sanatorium in which 12-year-old Halcyon can recover from her fantastic poethood, Capt. Day chooses his sister Madge's strictly common-or-garden English home. Here everybody tries to help her "find her own level," "cut her corners off" by making her "knock about" with other children. But Halcyon refuses to be either comforted or tamed. Her sophistication is more than a pose. Her tweedy, game-crazy playmates she finds hopelessly dull. Then suddenly, while moping one day in the ruins of Beaulieu Abbey, she meets Eden Herring...
...records there arises a vague satisfaction that at last some definite use has been found for the old gothic pile. For years, Memorial Hall has stood empty and scorned, with only the occasional tramping of feet directed toward examination desks and convention chairs to remind the dusky shades of halcyon days when windows were bright and unpainted, and biscuits whistled through the air of the popular college beanery...
Chicago has been Insull's lightly-held kingdom. Middle West is the utility empire sprawled somewhat shapelessly through 5,321 small cities and towns serving 6,000,000 people. It was acquired financially in the financially halcyon days. Mr. Insull could lose this village-empire and still be a great man if he controlled Chicago. But, again, it seemed that no one was prepared to take over the reins of power. That section of Middle West which lay, illogically, in New England and along the Atlantic, heavily involved with New York banks, might be taken away and attached...
...Haven would convince those interested that Yale still played a large part in their affections, and that the remaining two days could be spent in showing their love for the country at large. This all appears perfectly sensible to the outsider, but Yale alumni know better. They remember the halcyon week ends at New Haven when they sat under the trees sipping beer and swapping small talk, and so they are taking steps to confine the undergraduate to the cloistered serenity of the quadrangle during the week ends...