Word: halos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Suddenly an explosion dulled the storm's roar. A halo of flame swelled through the raindrenched night. For an instant the watching peasants could discern the shine of the R-101'S length, could see her nose plunged into the wooded side of a low hill. There was a second, a third explosion, a titanic blaze...
Exactly like comets are Chinese War Lords, here in a halo of gore and glory one day, gone next week into uttermost limbo, then back again after several years with brilliance undimmed, braggadocio redoubled. Last week from the limbo of a remote Buddhist monastery in Tibet there returned to the everlasting Chinese fray Comet Wu Pei-fu, the "Scholar War Lord...
...Prime Minister of France, crowned with the laurels of great achievements as Minister of Public Works,* crowned again with a large measure of success at The Hague Conference (see p. 25), it is natural that Andre Tardieu should shine in a white halo of dazzling, electric, go-getting virtues. But his portrait has also been done in black by the European publicist Simson Carasco, no liar though he somewhat exaggerates...