Word: nimbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gives me the happiest birthday present. Therefore-Vorwartsmit Gott!" By next morning astute campaigners for von Papen had adopted as their political slogan the President's reverent words: ''Forward with God!" This was more than many a German could stomach. If von Papen was stealing the nimbus of von Hindenburg, then revered Old Paul had himself ceased to be sacrosanct. Soon, for the first time in a German electoral campaign, the President was openly and savagely attacked. Brown-Shirt bands of Hitler Nazis (National Socialists) rushed about Berlin, sticking up everywhere posters which read: HERR PRESIDENT...
...authoritative, independent Vossische Zeitung last week: "He who was elected by part of the people is today the chosen of the whole nation. . . . This dispassionate man, by the glamour of his historic name,* by the dignity he has brought to his great office, has achieved a romantic nimbus...
...Nimbus: "A luminous vapor, cloud or atmosphere about a god or goddess when on earth."- Webster...