Word: halos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this boss, outlawed by the respectable element, who proves the only consistent person. He reunites husband and wife and gives the mortgage another chance. William Courtleigh made this rugged character seem real, despite the sanctity of his enforced halo. His was the most vivid personality in the play, and patrons went out smacking their lips over his aphorism: "A political platform is like a streetcar platform?it's not to stand...
...Democratic Party. "In this dark hour of Republican misrule, marked by wiggling, wobbling, halting and hesitating, twisting and squirming, doubt and uncertainty, and with no fixed program or settled policy, the record made by the last Administration rises in a halo of brilliance...
...establishes a girl (Florence Eldridge) in an apartment which has every luxury but a marriage certificate. Then comes a series of sometimes tortuous incidents and in the end he loses the girl, his business, his partner, whose wife has meanwhile cast a halo over the proceedings by her faithfulness, except for a flare-up to show she is human...
...latest thing in filigree lace from Venice or Aleppo. It was a weapon, and for Monsieur le Comte to be seen in public without his hilt resting beneath his left hand was an occasion for the wildest conjecture. As is the case with almost everything else, however, the halo, of romance which formerly hung about the point of the sword has congealed into a small tape-wrapped button, and the wrought gold basket work of the hilt has become a guard of ordinary steel. There are, however, one or two consolatory features. From being the defense of the aristocratic...
...expected that the Joan, brought to us by Shaw, is the Joan of our first love. She does not trail clouds of glory, nor converse with winged angels, nor does she fasten her locks within the confines of a regulation halo. She is the lass rather than the Maid...