Word: nimbus
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...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...
...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...
...Nimbus: "A luminous vapor, cloud or atmosphere about a god or goddess when on earth."- Webster...