Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star at Milan's La Scala, the Salzburg Festival, etc., had the crowd swooning from the moment she walked on stage as Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème. She reminded one critic of Italy's "gorgeous-looking, immensely skillful actresses," surprised everyone when her warm singing and touching performance equaled her looks. In her second opera, a sunny revival of Cherubim's The Portuguese Inn, the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein called her "the very incarnation of youthful feminine grace and vivacity." Even before she had appeared in her other roles...
Football fans should find it warm this afternoon at Soldiers Field, but not as hot as yesterday, when the temperature hit 86 degrees--the all-time Boston area high for October 1 since...
...mysteries of geology is why the earth's climate has changed. During some geological ages, the whole earth has been abnormally warm, at other times abnormally cool. This sort of change can be attributed to variations in solar radia tion or some other allover effect. At times, parts of the earth that are now cool had tropical climates, while parts now tropical were covered with ice. The obvious explanation is that the poles and the icecaps associated with them were then in different parts of the earth's-surface, but this theory is hard to prove...
...painted flags for military companies, soon commanded a company himself, fought at Princeton and Trenton. Once, when his company suddenly deserted him to rob an orchard on the line of march, Peale had the presence of mind to call after them an order to fall out. Also, he made warm boots for his men in winter. But if they loved him, the enemy had little reason to fear him. He became a pacifist who passionately hated war and dueling (any duelist, he remarked, "stinks ... as much while living as he would in four days after being shot...
Betrayed (M-G-M). The backgrounds for this film are beautiful. They were shot in Holland, in Eastman Color, by Cameraman F. A. Young, and they bathe the eye in that warm brown light the old Dutch masters loved. But when the story gets under way, it is as if a tired beetle were waddling across a canvas by Vermeer...