Word: palling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell's remarks at Washington clear a thunderous atmosphere, Hitherto worried friends of Harvard have had no criterion of the administration's policies beyond its somewhat incomprehensible actions. The pall of secrecy that has enveloped University Hall is at last dispelled; and on the basis of Mr. Allen's article in the Independent and President Lowell's speech of last night a just estimate of the Professor Baker episode can be formed...
...heavy pall hangs over Washington. The newly arrived stranger in the city reads gloom written all over the faces of the honest burghers. Perplexed to explain the general mourning, he asks a passer-by what great person is dead. Shaking his head, the honest, citizen sighs: "Nobody dead, worse luck. There ain't gonna be any circus at all." After months of feverish anticipation the great show has been canceled...
...light of fellowship is to light up Mem Hall for a last carouse. Next week the pall of unlighted vacancy will descend from its timbers, cover the wainscoting, and shut off the inquiring gaze of the gentlemen whose portraits have stared indifferently over the heads of several generations. For tonight, at least, decaying grandeur will be enlivened by a farewell feast. Rumor has it that Mem has splurged on turkey, the royal American bird, and invites all her remembering sons to dine with...
...Concord, Daniel Webster with his hair tossed back and his throat well oiled. Abraham Lincoln and his cadaverous friendliness, Grant and his cigar; to this glorious galaxy of national heroes might have been added the epic story of Calvin and his dime, if this "friend" had not draped the pall of anonymity over the gusto of anecdote. Still, some patriotic Ananias should be able, from the postmark "Racine", to create a national legend, or at least a ballad to the man who dropped the dime...
...steel and stogies, for smoke-belching glass factories, for a fuliginous smoke pall, for soot and cinders and fabulous fortunes that the popular mind has pictured piled in spilling, golden mounds among dark mountains -for these things has Pittsburgh been famous since men forgot how she was once a frontier fort in the Red Indians' forest...