Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military band struck up Haiti's national anthem, then The Star-Spangled Banner. As cannon boomed a 21-gun salute, Magloire led the Vice President at a brisk pace to review the guard of honor. "You will find a warm welcome here," said the Vice President. "America," replied the visitor in French, "is making one of the greatest efforts undertaken for the true liberation...
...Pair of Blue Eyes (Shirley Harmer; M-G-M). With a voice warm and sweet enough to make any passable tune sound good. Songstress Harmer turns this little mood piece (from the film Song 0' My Heart) into a real holiday...
...sadistic fall to the level of good, wholesome farce. Even when a renegade American brandishes a broken whiskey bottle in Cooper's face and growls, "My father always said the bottle could ruin a man," an aura of good-natured jollity pervades the film. The cockles of the heart warm perceptibly when Lancaster's vicious cut-throats drag a group of innocent children into a building as hostages...
Although President Eisenhower and other Administration officials have frequently expressed concern over the problem, they still apparently resist a program of general Federal aid. A Committee in the last Congress favorably reported such a measure, but the bill died, partly because of the luke-warm attitude of the Administration. The President, in his special message on education next week, should accept the need for an enlarged construction program. Economy is both important and desirable, but the Federal Government should not sacrifice an adequate school system...
...Grace recalls, without rancor. Even then remote and selfabsorbed, Grace used to write poetry, some serious, some "little gooney ones" that showed a neat turn of phrase. Sample, written when she was 14: I hate to see the sun go down And squeeze itself into the ground, Since some warm night it might get stuck And in the morning...