Word: halo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...energetic fence-mending, in every corner of the world where British troops were stationed, and two years of peace, for the public to forgive & forget. Last week, in a rollicking, fullblown show for BBC, "Our Gracie" was back, as bouncy as ever, in black lace, with her hair a halo of tight, bleached curls...
Next morning, under the myriad of lights within the huge dome of St. Peter's, the Swiss enjoyed every minute of what they had really come for. Bright green, gold-embroidered bonnets and halo-like veils stood out among the black headdresses of nuns. Hundreds of Swiss eyes watched anxiously to see how the Pope would receive the profusion of gifts they had brought-huge candles with Alpine scenes painted on the sides, turtledoves, canaries, singing birds...
...ideal pattern for society lay not in the future (with the dictatorship of the proletariat) but in the past. In the Middle Ages, said he, men inhabited "a world more wonderful than the eyes of men have looked on before or after . . . and saw St. Francis walking with his halo a cloud of birds...
...George Marshall, three unofficial U.S. tourists-Communist Boss William Z. Foster, Republican Harold Stassen and Henry Agard Wallace-came home from Europe. Foster and Stassen, quiet men both, were almost lost sight of in the general commotion which hatless Henry Wallace streamed behind him like a kind of untidy halo...
...show, Milt claims that he has become a new man. "It's a different me," he muses, puffing a halo of cigar smoke. "I'm not the manufactured Broadway comedian any more. I'm going back, back to my real talent. I began as a dramatic actor, you know. . . . On this new show, people will get to know the real Milton Berle. The Milton at home...