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...minister of a church comes down into the political arena and goes out with his radio incendiarism to stir up the fountains of hate in a distressed land amongst a suffering people, I take it nothing amiss and I make no apologies, but I will snatch the halo from his brow and throw it into the nearest spittoon, and then throw the spittoon into the gutter...
...went backstage to get Einstein pictures. Outside six policemen held back a surging crowd of curious. The curtain went up on a stage empty but for a blackboard covered with equations chalked in different colors. Applause began. In the midst of it Dr. Einstein ambled from the wings, his halo of white hair glowing in the dim light...
...political events of Europe are to mean anything at all to the people of America it is time that the press ceased to surround European Royal Houses with a halo of romance--which is usually exaggerated and in this case absurd--and directed its attention to giving its readers the instruction on political affairs which they are undoubtedly anxious to receive. Bernard C. Sendall Wolfgang F. Stolper...
...Toronto, the Canadian National Art Exhibition hung an Annunciation by one Evan Walters. In blue pajamas and halo the Virgin sits on a box. A Gabriel in bright yellow aviation suit points to the ceiling. Through the open door of the small shack may be seen Gabriel's airplane. Cried outraged clergymen: "Rotten! Ridiculous! Bad taste!" Director Fred Haines said that artists have often painted the Virgin in contemporary clothes, denied the picture would be removed...
...Vincent Gebardi, her blonde hair braided and wrapped around her head halo-fashion, teed off at Chicago's Lincoln Park in the first round of the Illinois Women's Public Parks golf tournament. In wider Chicago circles Mrs. Gebardi is known as "The Blonde Alibi," and wife of "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn, Public Enemy No. 4. Gangster Vincent Gebardi (alias "Jack McGurn") was suspected of participating in the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Pretty Louise Rolfe, just out of high school, took the witness stand at his trial, swore that he had been with her in a hotel...