Word: halos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long enough to vivisect this latest of arts, in the New Republic. His criticism is more sapient than the average bombast against innovations, because it has a universal concept as its base Mr. Frank argues that while jazz may be folk art, such qualification does not grant it a halo a priori. "There has indeed been abroad for a full century the curious notion that folk art, as once the King can do no wrong; that folk art is necessarily good art; that the critic who dares to question folk art commits the unpardonable sin." This is undoubtedly true...
...band of scientists listened expectantly to a whining roar close by them. At two points in the blackness, 20 feet apart, flickers of light appeared, dancing white, blue, violet, spreading and leaping towards each other as the roar increased. Thousands of flaming lances stabbed the night horizontally, creating the halo of glowing purple known to electrical engineers as the "corona," a sign of wasting power. The crackle of sparks intensified, culminating in a fierce explosion, as a broad, jagged ribbon of blue-edged white flame leapt across the room from electrode to electrode. It was the hugest man-made spark...
...discovered that his dearly beloved, departed wife had once been indiscreet in Kansas. Therefore, by a technicality of nature, Sunshine Dave's daughter, light of his life, is really the offspring of a successful manufacturer. Everyone rejoices when Sunshine wages a stern, successful battle for the idealized halo of his wife's memory and preservation of his home life. Actor Heggie saves the sentimentality from the shoals of ridicule. But the comic relief is too hopelessly trite for successful navigation...
Jaunty on many a British jurists' brow there perches the halo of high levity. Thus girt are Viscount Haldane and (notoriously) Baron Darling. Both are members of Britain's highest court, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Both grew quipful last week when the Committee considered an appeal by the Canadian Ministry of Finance against a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada respecting one Cecil Smith, confessed bootlegger. Succinctly put, the question at issue was: "Ought the Crown to reap taxes from incomes known to be drawn from illegal sources, or is the $90,000 annual...
...judicious phrase, a word here and there when not carried to the extreme of actual information, often turns a dull hand into a delightful bluff. A finesse is transformed from a mere mathematical chance to a palpitating affair of flesh and blood. While the game still retains its intelligent halo, the human factor which makes poker endurable is also added...