Word: halos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only with a shawl or handkerchief. Last week the Vicar General of the Catholic diocese of Louisville, Very Rev. E. Erie Willett, startled the faithful within and without his flock when, presumably acting for Louisville's Bishop John A. Floersh, he declared that the currently fashionable, crownless "halo hats" are inadequate for Catholic church wear. Quipped Vicar General Willett: "I am sorry that the ladies here will have to wait until they get to heaven before they can wear their halos...
...Mercury had an atmosphere, the sun's light would be diffused in passing through, causing the appearance of a halo around the planet, University astronomers explained...
...chap start shaking in his shoes about Finals,--or whether it's just because it's spring, and the flowers and birds and breezes are out and the sun doesn't look at you slantwise, we don't know. But the fellow who invented Spring Vacation deserves a halo and a crown of gold...
...politically bankrupt." Main sin of Director Eisenstein seemed to have been that he "confused the class struggle with the struggle between good and evil." Further Eisenstein faults were showing a collective campaigner with "an enormous beard and the manner of a Biblical Saint," showing the hero with a halo around his head...
...stars, one much farther away than the other but both in the same line of sight, the bending of light around the near star should make the far star appear as a luminous ring. Actually no telescope now in use would be powerful enough to bring out this halo, and the phenomenon, if ever observed at all, would appear simply as an increase in brightness of the far star...