Word: nimbus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright, crowded colors (TIME. April 3, 1933). But Painter Carroll's frescoes were simple, subdued, purely decorative idealizations. One of them, called Morning, showed three gracile, rosy-fleshed women floating in a pale blue, white-clouded sky. Another, Afternoon, showed the same figures wan and drooping in a nimbus of yellow light. Evening, on which Artist Carroll was streaking soft browns and blacks last week, shaped up as a galloping white horse with a muscular male draped on its back, one arm encircling another ZaSu-Pittsian female (see cut}. "There is no complicated message in this set," explained...
Felicitating the new Commissar of Interior, Pravda exclaimed: "Long has the Ogpu worn a halo formed of the deep love of tens of millions of workers and peasants both in our Soviet land and abroad." This halo, Pravda felt sure, will long remain the radiant nimbus of the Commissariat of Interior...
...nature. Then, nicely dovetailed, there appears some short description or conversation which unites all previously known and adds to it with economy, so that the reader emerges with a friendship and knowledge of the character in question which he hardly remembers having got. There is a delicate satirical nimbus over the entire volume; at the same time, not one of the many who enter the pages is let go unsympathetically. The great virtue and strength of the work is understanding...
...Joseph Early Widener's Hurryoff at odds of 12 to 1: the Belmont Stakes ($49,490), richest race of the year for three-year-olds, with Nimbus second by two lengths, Union third; at Belmont Park...
...intend to do certain things to an official who smeared and muddied the glorious name of the Emperor of Japan, whose nimbus shines over the world and who is saving the world from its present crisis. The world and all human beings under the sun should be subject to the godly and divine Emperor of Japan...