Word: lukewarm
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...Chapman tells the story of Watts' five spiritual wives and an absurd legal union with an incipient genius, the girl model Ellen Terry, when he was a middleaged, lukewarm gentleman and she an actress with a vocation as irresistible as his own. On the only occasion on which Ellen mentioned it to me, she described how, when she was only Watts' model, she came home one day and informed her mother triumphantly that she was going to have a baby.. Watts had kissed her-and she was young enough to believe that babies were the result...
Congress, which last year turned down a basically similar proposal in the Murray-Kilgore bill, was still only lukewarm to the idea. But this time, it seemed, Congress would have to pass some such bill-if not what the President asked-for it was becoming painfully apparent that Harry Truman was right: there would be major unemployment in many places and, unless adequate relief was provided, serious hardship would follow both for labor and business-through no fault and beyond the control of either...
Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...
...Atlanta Annual at first (1942) got a lukewarm reception from Atlanta's white citizens. Local newspapers paid it little or no attention. But a few of the city's strong-minded art lovers gave it a good hand. For one, burly Editor Ralph McGill offhandedly plugged the show in his Constitution (which believes in giving Southern Negroes at least their minimum constitutional rights). After several prominent whites had spoken at its opening ceremonies, the all-Negro Annual gradually became an Atlanta institution. Now one of the South's outstanding art events, it hands...
Chill wartime winds from Washington had numbed the sports outlook for 1945, but there were lukewarm currents...