Word: halo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ronald Balcom has been escorting when he wasn't with Lady Ashley. ∙∙ Greta Garbo, who started the long-lived longhair fad, had her locks cut to within three inches of their life, dyed them greenish-gold (with an aquamarine rinse), and tucked them into a monkish halo. ∙∙ Hedy Lamarr also had her long mane shortened, but only for private showing. ∙∙ Baby-faced Simone Simon joined the rush for U.S. citizenship, applied for her first papers...
Meeting at Harvard Observatory, a small group of leading U.S. astronomers agreed last week that a Swedish physicist, Bengt Edlen, had just thrown a good deal of light on the sun. It concerned the nature of the sun's corona-its turbulent halo of incandescent gases...
...this at the end of the Senior year. A more general examination is given to those not out for honors. While these are thorough requirements, they should drive no one away, for they are but little harder actually than those in a field like History. Nor should the halo which has surrounded the History and Literature department draw students in at the expense of other fields such as either English or History alone which may well offer as thorough an education...
Every Monday quarterback knows that Grange could never have wriggled into the nation's headlines without Britton. Neither could have Harmon without Evashevski. Yet last week, just as they canonized Illinois' Red Grange 15 years before, hero-worshiping U. S. football fans spread a halo around Tom Harmon, Michigan's hula-hipped halfback who put on the best one-man show of the 1940 season, hung up a conference record of 33 touchdowns in three years' competition...
...Lincoln's gaunt figure has stepped out of the homey precincts of the stage and exposed itself to the glamor of inquisitive Klieg lights. But it has forfeited none of its earthy humanity; its shady sides have not been glossed over by a halo of legend and heroism. A classic of the modern American stage, Robert Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" has now become a classic of American moviedom...