Word: haloing
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...behind it a bank of faces rising two-thirds of the way to the stage ceiling. Paunchy Tenor Paul Althouse entered with willowy, blonde Soprano Jeannette Vreeland and dark, smiling Contralto Rose Bampton. Finally came Philadelphia's Conductor Leopold Stokowski, wearing the full black cravat which, with his halo of light hair, makes him look like an erect, dandified David Belasco out of the age of inno- cence.* Philadelphia's Academy of Music stage was set in this fashion last week for the U. S. premiere of Gurrelieder, a choral-symphony by Austrian Arnold Schonberg, most extreme...
...Berkman had a better idea: he would shoot the capitalist-in-charge, Henry Clay Frick. With Emma's blessing he went to Pittsburgh, shot Mr. Frick three times, but unsuccessfully, and went to jail for 14 years. His attempt canonized Berkman in Emma's eyes, set an untarnishable halo round his head. When her former guide & friend Johann Most made slighting remarks about Berkman, Emma horsewhipped him publicly. Her fiery spirit was housed in a fiery body: in love she took her only vacations from the Cause. After Berkman came Ed Brady, Hippolyte Havel, Ben Reitman. She was very willing...
...lines in his round boyish face, so easy to caricature, so hard to paint. He has worked off 15 Ib. of fat. His health has been uninterruptedly good, thanks to a stern physical routine. Two dozen months of the White House spotlight were enough to generate an embryonic halo about the head of Calvin ("Weaned-on-a-pickle") Coolidge, a previously insignificant politician who had cautiously climbed the Massachusetts "escalator." Two dozen months of spotlight put completely in the shadow Herbert Hoover's world-significant career, and robbed him of whatever sentiment had been attached to his name. Losing faith...
...lira gold piece ($19.30) Sears on the reverse a full length figure of Christ as King. He holds the usual emblems of regal power : the sceptre and the globe. At his feet cherubs support a crown. About his head is a halo. The inscription: Stato Citta Vaticano...
...lira: reverse, the Virgin with a halo of stars, crescent moon and globe near by ; obverse, the Papal Arms...