Word: haloing
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...State of Grace M. Duperrier, a good Christian in the prime of life, is crowned with a radiant halo "which looked as though it might have been cut out of fairly stiff cardboard." His wife is socially embarrassed, for "she thought it more important to be esteemed by her concierge than by her Creator." A dutiful husband, Duperrier cultivates the seven deadly sins in the hope of losing the halo. Matters reach a hilariously poignant pitch when Duperrier blushingly prepares for lust by reading the latest sex manuals aloud. At story's end, he is a prostitute...
...works, it has been least tampered with. The Nativity, though patches have flaked away, retains something of its original hues, and the forms are all there still and all clear (see color). The animals, the dreaming Joseph, the rapt shepherds and the choiring angels together form a kind of halo around the central drama: a mother's first sight of her baby...
...first cover, March 3, 1923. Drawing VIPs one after another in one-hour sessions, Oberhardt learned to control his awed nerves by recalling the dry advice of one of his portrait subjects, Inventor Hudson Maxim: "The more you get to know celebrities, the more you will find their halo hanging over...
After remolding Ike's brass hat into a golden halo, and rocking the country to sleep with "Everything's fine, Daddy's here," Hagerty simply must have overcome his dislike for "wading through manure...
...greens and turquoise blues. It occurred in a small area about 15 degrees from the sun and lasted only about 15 minutes. It can be fully explained, but only in the language of a meteorologist. However, it can be said that it was only a fragment of a giant halo due to unusually small droplets...