Word: halo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cosmopolitan and divided as Harvard men may be, they manage to come together on one or two scattered points. And while views of the House Plan, the War Memorial, and the Lampoon may be colored by many different shades of Crimson, there is always a rosy halo about the neighborhood of Hollis...
Contrasted with Vance and his native thirst for literature are Halo and Lewis Tarrant, products of the civilized and cosmopolitan world which Mrs. Wharton knows and likes the best. But in this story she has given her favorites the meagerer parts. Vance's honest bluntness is thrown into even bolder relief by their futile sophistication, their self-deluding cleverness...
...naked girl with sleek black hair against a bright halo, riding one of three large white camels beneath a great swirl of checkered cloth and amid a riotous procession of companions, awaits the inspection, through lorgnette and opera glass, of the first families of Chicago...
Ishbel's "Engagement." Perceptibly reserved was Miss Ishbel MacDonald last week as she trotted in the wake of her tall, halo-headed sire. Perhaps she was repenting an exuberance. Jocularly, one morning, she had greeted the appearance of her father's middle-aged friend Lord Arnold with the cry, "Oh, look at the House of Lords!" Promptly and absurdly they were rumored engaged. Baron Arnold, British Paymaster General, is accompanying the MacDonald party at his own expense, has been mooted as the next British Ambassador at Washington-suspected of being a "Colonel House." Intensely embarrassed, especially by reports...
Married. Mrs. Lotta Rupp (Cinemactress Lottie Pickford); to one Russell O. Gillard, Los Angeles undertaker; in Hollywood. It was Mrs. Rupp's third marriage. After her first divorce (1920) she proclaimed she would not marry again "even if the man had golden wings and a diamond halo...