Word: lukewarm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whacked a small cymbal. Their style could be described as modified vo-do-de-o-do. It was original enough to get them a job with Paul Whiteman, but seemed to burden many audiences. The Manhattan reception of their Red Hot Henry Brown prompted them to rename the song Lukewarm Henry Brown. It was not until Paul Whiteman put Harry Barris into the act that the Rhythm Boys really got to town...
...mediocre quintet doing all sorts of amazing things, such as beating Penn and Princeton, and losing to Yale. The boys proved very good guests wherever they went, simply refusing to win on an opponent's court. They split two games with Yale, so the old grads were pretty lukewarm about it all. Hal Ulen had a good swimming team until Bill Drucker and Bus Curwen were graduated, and even after that things weren't bad. The boys upset Dartmouth one March afternoon, and Yale, in winning its usual tremendous victory, didn't look quite as good as its advance notices...
Heads Down. The Labor Party is in humdrum contrast. It has only a few able men, a lukewarm, badly battered Socialist program. Labor's representation in the House consists mostly of ultraconservative unionists, of the type which long ago inspired the crack, "Commons is Labor's House of Lords...
...formerly a boon to the New Deal, was running a candidate of its own. So, last week Franklin Roosevelt tried again. Said he, in a telegram addressed to Bennett but meant for the ears of the American Labor Party: "To suggest that my support of you is formal and lukewarm is an untruth. . . . You are without any question the best qualified of all the candidates for the governorship. . . . There are no strings to this endorsement ... I do not believe in protest voting...
...obvious that the Chinese, like the Russians, enjoyed Wendell Willkie. And he would obviously be a great warmer of the lukewarm Sino-Allied relations -if he had brought with him enough assurances of material help. Just what he had brought was a military secret. But in Chungking, as in Moscow, Wendell Willkie loudly called for greater United Nations action. At the Gissimo's banquet he said...