Word: warm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter for regret that Herr Hitler is a man of such chilly personal correctitude!" the House of Commons was told in an impassioned speech last week by warm, beef-eating, virile Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, M. P., Conservative. "If he would smoke, eat and drink, Hitler might be more human and less dangerous. He might, like other dictators, be more anxious to take another person's concubine rather than their country! Instead, he is a great big bully in Europe...
This week Britons hoped that their dynamic, somewhat dictatorial War Secretary will get on well with Dictator Mussolini, to whom he is carrying a warm message of personal regard from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Premier Mussolini has not been visited by any member of a British Cabinet since June 2 5, 1935-the fateful summer day on which Mr. Anthony Eden had a personal quarrel in Rome with the Dictator which affected the whole history of contemporary Europe. Just before the War Secretary left England by plane for Malta, where he will inspect naval defenses before going to Rome this...
Pink-cheeked, spectacled Dirck Roosevelt, 13, son of Kermit Roosevelt and grandson of the late U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt, parked against a fence in Groton, Mass., one warm afternoon last week and brooded. He gazed in distaste at his books, at Groton School. The reflection that his father was adventuring in the South Seas added nothing to his contentment. The bright sunshine increased his gloom. He fished out his wallet, thoughtfully counted $8. He turned to his spectacled, 13-year-old companion, Henry Wyse Distler, son of a Baltimore engineer. "Come on," he said abruptly. Without more ado they...
...Ambassador's letter was addressed to "Dear Cabot" and Senator Lodge replied, "Dear Joe. . . . As I said when we talked this over before you sailed, I think this is a good decision. . . . With high regard and warm personal greetings. . . . (signed) Cabot...
...projected himself back into the days when first he heard those words, the Vagabond remembered the noisy campaign, with the bandying of "liberty," "democracy," and the "American form of government." He remembered the crowds, the noise, and the national frenzy that rose to a fever pitch one warm November day, and then subsided. He remembered hearing that golden voice as it swore to "preserve, protect, and defend" the Constitution. He remembered all these things--and then, as if in echo, he heard again, "We must take action to save the Constitution from the court...