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Felicitating the new Commissar of Interior, Pravda exclaimed: "Long has the Ogpu worn a halo formed of the deep love of tens of millions of workers and peasants both in our Soviet land and abroad." This halo, Pravda felt sure, will long remain the radiant nimbus of the Commissariat of Interior...
...Vagabond rose, prophecy welling within him. "Gentlemen. Our Alma Mata doesn't care." He spoke with solemn dignity, stressing every word. No head stirred under its halo of smoke. No dull eye answered to his rhetoric...
...fair hair visible through its delicate mesh, this airy, unsubstantial fabric [the veil] drifted in long, broad folds for yards behind her, as fragile as a mist, enmeshing her tall figure, concealing her face, and, in its upturned brim that circled her shapely head, forming the semblance of a halo, that gave her the air of one of the saints or angels that, in color, looked down from the gorgeous memorial windows on every hand. . . ." Actually the two-and-one-half columns showed a degree of restraint. Miss Devereux has been known to devote four columns to a wedding...
...Halo Tarrant and her cold husband had come to the parting of the ways even before she began to fall in love with Vance Weston, Midwestern novelist of charming honesty and unstable character. When Halo ran off to Europe with Vance, her husband's cold vanity was wounded; he refused to give her a divorce. For a while she did not mind. She was sure Vance had the makings of a great writer; in the meantime they would have a grand time discovering Europe together. But Vance turned out to be unexpectedly impressionable. New people and places, if they...
...terms of the new rates are fair enough. Abandoning the old "maximum plan," which counted in extra meals only to the $10.50 mark, may excite some opposition, but it can be regarded as a just measure to help support the lowered rates. Whatever halo may still hover over the roof of Lehman Hall is quickly dissipated by a consideration of the means utilized literally to compel men to sign for the twenty-one meal ticket. Twenty-one meals a week will cost nine dollars; fourteen meals would be priced at $.7.75. Between the two limits one finds seven meals...