Word: haloes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mayor. For the choice of the Cleveland mayor lay not with the people but with the city council. One mayor, Clayton C. Townes, resigned, and another, John D. Marshall, was promptly elected by the council. But the office of mayor in Cleveland is not panoplied and surrounded with the halo of office, for the city is governed by a city manager, at present able, active William R. Hopkins...
...newspapers have lately built up around the more important criminals a halo of sensational romance which makes them appear like heroes, fighting valiantly for their lives in prejudiced courtrooms. Moving Pictures and detective novels have also helped to show that murderers are only martyrs and sneak thieves are honest men forced under by society. The less vicious male-factors pass through the courtroom with scarcely a word of comment but the Loebs and the Leopolds are swamped with notes of genuine sympathy...
When a fastidious observer appraises a Madonna by one of the Italian primitives, he takes pleasure, not in the childishly-drawn, insipid features of the holy woman, but in the exquisite ellipse of the head, the halo. The egg of a hen is also an exquisite ellipse. Which is more beautiful- the Mother of God, or a smooth egg? "The Mother of God," answer Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee; for no egg, were it equivocal as Humpty-Dumpty, could interest the eye by such interrelated curves as can a woman's face. How much more do these curves interest when...
...corona, ejections of gas driven out some millions of miles from the sun's seething fireball. This corona casts a ghostly light and exhibits itself around the dark rim of the moon, a glow from the sun at the inner ring, radiating outward in soft tints like a halo. Meanwhile, the sky is darkened and the stars are visible. Near the moon, and west of it, will appear a group of three planets, Venus nearest, then Mercury and farthest Jupiter. To be able to see Mercury with the naked eye is very rare, for its orbit is so near...
...question is of granting the college student a maximum of intellectual freedom. The undergraduate is well-poised: he will not be unbalanced by reading about a few doubtful subjects always in common talk. And openness of approach to written knowledge of esoteric subjects will go far to dissipate the halo of naughtiness which clings about the prurient taboo...