Word: warm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time Adolf Hitler arrived in Rome last week (see p. 22), His Holiness Pope Pius XI had retreated from the comforts of the Vatican and gone to his unheated palace at Castel Gandolfo, which he does not usually visit until definitely warm weather has arrived. The Pope was represented as displeased because the Führer had not requested an audience. To pilgrims at Castel Gandolfo the Holy Father said that it was sad that "on the feast day of the Holy Cross of Christ the banners of another cross [the swastika], which certainly is not that of Christ, should...
...FINE SUMMER WEATHER - Catherine Whitcomb - Random House ($2). Warm, summery novel covering a warm summer day in a New Hampshire resort, by the author of The Grown-Ups. Although her grown-ups are a little too neat to be plausible. Author Whitcomb's children are shrewd, engaging, unsentimental...
...misty recollections of picnics in the vicinity of Wayland, followed by their inevitable softball games, of mad rushes under Massachusetts Avenue in pursuit of the 150's with sudden death lurking in every whitewalled wheel, of tandem bicycle rides in Brookline, of lengthy collateral assignments for History 1, of warm evenings on Mt. Auburn Street, of dust and bats and paper cups on the ball field, and of well-meant oaths of fealty to some sweet, starry-eyed blonde about to be ravished by the iniquitous practices of the coming debutante season...
...provincial town of Germany with the people shouting 'Heil Hitler' in French." On Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt, I think, has all the makings of a good dictator and perhaps we ought to vote him President for life. He can sail a boat, has a pleasant smile, a warm heart, a beautiful mother, and he's well read...
There was a difference of opinion concerning Boston audiences. Miss Holm seemed to think that Boston audiences did not react very heartily to risque lines and she termed Bostonians "rather slow." Miss Buchanan, who takes the lead said that she was agreeably surprised how warm the audiences in the Hub were. "The audiences in San Francisco were the most appreciative," she added...