Word: warm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the doors were unlocked last week, the legends evaporated. Painted in true fresco† in warm and rich greys, browns and purples, the mural dramatized the productive and destructive possibilities of science with contrasting machines for war and peace, gears and shells, bombs and books, live workers and dead soldiers. Obviously inspired by Orozco, it differs from the Mexican's work in the technical exactitude with which Engineer Egleson painted factories and machinery, the sobriety of the human figures, wooden in comparison with Orozco's energetic and muscular people...
...visit the Coop--with a purpose. There he will purchase a flyswatter, mosquito netting, sticky paper, the most deadly exterminator, and the biggest Flit gun available. If that wasp or any more of the air corps drops in for a call tomorrow morning, they are going to catch a warm reception. The ground forces will be prepared...
...look back upon these days as civilization's great crisis. In every way an apostate world challenges principles which past generations have long thought secure. Law and order and good old army discipline have just been vanquished in Oregon's primaries, and the Princeton campus gave Earl Browder a warm greeting. But yet a further branch has been made in the dikes which true liberals has been made in the dikes which turn liberals have builded against the raging torrents of the New Deal. The Herald Tribune wavers...
BELOW THE ROARING FORTIES-F. D. Ommanney-Longmans, Green ($3). Antarctic adventures (1929-1937) of a London zoologist, with smelly descriptions of whaling, acute descriptions of penguins and seals, warm descriptions of the Discovery's, Norwegian crew members, an exciting account of narrow escape from polar ice and marooning...
...side of a hill in the south-western part of this region lies a settlement of twelve small houses dominated by a large building. The country is usually quiet on warm Spring evenings, but now an atmosphere of gayety pervades the place. Girls wearing beautiful dresses and boys trailing them are running in the direction of the parent building where a dance is progressing...