Word: palling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the figure of the saint either baptizing or blessing the figures in front of him is an archbishop is attested by his pall. Therefore it might be St. Dunston or St. Alphage, both of whom are represented in Canterbury Cathedral by a series of scenes from their lives. However, this too, seems to be an incorrect supposition, as dimensions of the Fogg Museum roundell are considerably smaller that those of the St. Dunston and St. Alphage windows which remain, or the original irons of them...
...receive daily their necessary rations. The whole country is before them. We can picture them wandering over hill and dale. . . . "Cold weather, however, soon drives them indoors. A desire for luxury, for occupation and for companionship awakes in them. The young husband tires of loafing, love-making begins to pall, love begins to seem to both of them not quite 'enough.' ... So he takes a job in the Capitals and proudly
...Variety. "The year 1931 will offer rewards for investors"- Roger Babson. "Come to the cross of Jesus Christ"-Billy Sunday. Jimmy Walker stealing an apple off a tree. President Hoover's message to the Republican convention. Smoke from the Bonus army's burning huts hanging like a pall over the Capitol. President Roosevelt on the Capitol steps, prepared to "ask extraordinary powers from the Congress." The New Deal...
Nell never retired formally from the stage, but after Charles took up with her she acted less & less. Though the King always had more than one mistress at a time Nell was apparently not jealous. She made the most of the princely presents he gave her: a house in Pall Mall, a generous allowance, two sons. The King found her good company and never stayed away for long. Her two principal rivals were Italian Hortense Mancini, French Louise de Quérouailles. With Louise, an aristocrat who constantly tried to come the great lady over her, Nell never...
...student expression in Harvard the existence of too much genteel self-granulation and too little self-examination. The Critic is intended to be critical, but not sensational. It is to deal primarily, although not exclusively, with problems of education. Above all, it is to strive to dispel 'the dismal pall of apathy' which hangs over...