Word: lukewarm
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White House Call. Joe Ball had thought long and deeply before bolting. Also he had been wooed by the Democrats. Soon after he seconded Tom Dewey's nomination at Chicago, word went round that Ball was lukewarm. The St. Paul Pioneer Press asked him pointblank. Replied Joe Ball on Sept. 29: "Governor Dewey . . . has not yet convinced me that his own convictions . . . are so strong that he would fight vigorously for a foreign policy which will offer real hope of preventing World...
...alone in a dress-parade nightgown, frisks and flops about on her marshmallowy bed like a titillated tarpon. But to judge by the gasps, oofs, titters and low moans of the audience which stuffed Manhattan's Rivoli Theater on the opening day, the picture may well hurdle a lukewarm press to become the woman's wow of the year...
...cotton and culturing the swab). The maximum the law allows is 100. One drug store had 86,000 bacteria to a cup-no surprise to customers who have watched lunch-counter dishwashing with horrified fascination. Some New York City beer glasses, which usually get a split-second rinse in lukewarm water, had a count of 55,000, but in a survey of an unnamed city last year the Public Health Service found an average of 7,000,000 bacteria per beer glass (the notion that alcohol makes a glass safe is a fallacy...
...purge attempt was Governor Olin D. Johnston, who campaigned on the slogan: "A vote for Olin D. is a vote for the principles of Franklin D." Last week Johnston opposed Cotton Ed again. By now Olin Johnston, though a supporter of Roosevelt's foreign policy, was only lukewarm to the New Deal. This time he snatched the bloody flag of "white supremacy" from Cotton Ed and raced down the field with...
...bonds. The B-29 raid on Japan sold several million dollars worth more, leading the Tokyo radio to explain that the U.S. bond drive was "one of the greatest swindles in American history." But now sales were lagging almost everywhere. So the Treasury Department razzle-dazzled a lukewarm public with more & more sex, sentiment and stunts...