Word: lukewarmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Russell Lowell, Harvard 1838, son of another half-brother of "Rebel" John, and today the best known of the family. He was nevertheless its "problem child" because he married outside the Brahmin caste and had Abolitionist leanings. Author Greenslet is lukewarm about J.R.L.'s writings: "The truth is that, for all the ten volumes of his Collected Works, [he] never wrote a book. He only put newspaper and magazine contributions, poems, speeches and lectures together...
...Stephens has chestnut hair on one page, black hair on another), but it is a generally scholarly study, based on primary sources, of an extraordinary political career. Not the least extraordinary fact in Stephens' life is that, having accepted the post of Confederate Vice President, he gave only lukewarm support to the Government. When his own ideas of states' rights and constitutional liberty were infringed by the Confederate Congress, he sulked in Georgia, refused even to go to Richmond. By 1864 he had become so embittered that he began to talk outright treason: a separate peace with...
Simplicity is the enema keynote in the Atomic Age. Best ingredients: "plain lukewarm water, or perhaps just a trace of bicarbonate of soda or ordinary salt." Warns Dr. Lieberman: "Soap is a very popular ingredient now, unjustly so, because in most cases it is unnecessary and irritating...
...happened that ambitious Hermann Goring was looking for an easy way to eliminate Blomberg, who was a lukewarm Nazi at best and might oppose schemes of conquest. Fraulein Gruhn was just what Goring needed. Goring was most helpful to Bridegroom Blomberg, even induced Hitler to come to the wedding. But as soon as the couple had left on their honeymoon, Goring took Frau von Blom-berg's police file to the Fuhrer. Hitler promptly flew into one of his tantrums and sacked Blomberg...
...John bathed only three times a year (before the principal festivals) and Queen Elizabeth only once a month-"whether she required it or not." Medieval community baths were highly respected ("there could be no better [place] for ladies desiring children," remarked an old chronicler), but the Church was so lukewarm toward cleanliness that, says the author, St. Agnes was canonized for flatly refusing ever to bathe at all. Hot bathwater was still considered effeminate in the early 19th Century: when Queen Victoria ascended the throne, Buckingham Palace contained not one tub, and the master of a great English college pooh...