Word: lukewarm
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Clyde Hoey is lukewarm to the New Deal, but Southern-hot for internationalism. An ex-Governor of North Carolina, Hoey is a brother-in-law of O. Max Gardner, another ex-Governor, now a lawyer-lobbyist, whose political machine is known as the "Gardner Dynasty." Hoey and the Gardner Dynasty had an easy time beating out still another ex-Governor, the famed "Cam" Morrison, 74, who held the Senate seat before Bob Reynolds beat him in 1932 by telling North Carolinians in horror that "Cam" actually ate caviar, "fish aigs that come from Red Rooshia...
King George VI was not pleased with the public's lukewarm, if friendly, reception of Elizabeth at her coming of age (TIME, April 24). The press was not pleased with the stereotyped handouts it got from the King's secretary, courteous Sir Eric Charles Mieville. The copy consisted largely of Gene Stratton Porterish references to the Princess' wholesome character...
...than the usual four-year tour of duty. In 1935, Manuel Quezon invited him to reorganize the Philippine Army; in 1941, after retirement from the U.S. Army, he was recalled to head American-Filipino forces in the Far East. He commanded the forces on Bataan until ordered to Australia. Lukewarm toward air power before War II, he changed his mind quick to work hand in glove with his air chief, Lieut. General George C. Kenney, one of the most brilliant developers of air warfare (TIME, Jan. 18, 1943). And some of his campaigns in the South Pacific, a series...
...only to Willkie supporters, but to many lukewarm Deweyites, this tactic now seemed a confession that Dewey really wants the nomination but is afraid his chances will be hurt by a Wisconsin licking...
...brief "and with purity of heart, except it be perchance prolonged by the inspiration of divine grace." The whole Psalter must be recited each week, "for we read that our holy Fathers were strenuous enough to fulfil in a single day this task which I pray that we lukewarm folk may complete in the whole week." St. Benedict does not demand strict fasting but recommends that food and drink be cut to a healthy minimum...