Word: haloing
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...press to play with this colonel must face the inquisition, mother can point to the Marine post. And in some rustic hamlet some fonders and say to her son--"My boy, join the Marines and keep your morale clean." And in the vigor of his hypocrisy some preacher can halo another saint. For America in the glory of legalized morality has forgotten the spiritual depths as well as the heights which must be the experience of man. The rigors of reality cannot exist--they must be diluted by the discretion of Smedley Butlers, good men, indeed but never saints...
...Curtis bill now before Congress, which is intended to create a national Department of Education, shines by light reflected from the halo of universal learning that crowns a democracy. The purely negative argument, that a nation spending about three quarters of its income on past, present, and future wars is able to afford $1,500,000 for education can be strongly urged in favor of the proposal...
...perhaps inevitable in an age of prompt publicity that many a trivial incident should reach the general world in a halo or with horns. At any rate eager reporters--sometimes play fairy godmother to publicity agents. One of these, Harry Reichenbach, has just begun a series of articles of which the first appears in the current "Liberty", a bit gloating in manner, but none the less picturesque...
...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...