Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shenandoah Blossom Festival (TIME, May 14), without wishing to enter into the grammatical status of that "dark-complected" gentleman, may I not suggest that perhaps the "stupid race-blindness" of which you speak might have been displayed not by Mrs. Reynolds but by those warm persuaders of the Pasha who failed to realize that the Negro strain is as evident when promulgated through a line of princes and pashas as when through the humblest Senegambian dragged unwillingly into slavery, and that, unfortunately, or otherwise, depending upon the point of view, neither title nor position can hide it from the Southerner...
...where she could alter the hang, and, stooping over, with swift fingers pinned folds here, there. The negligee fit smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched it quickly. And her home work room ? hung with the musty odor of thread, cloth and warm flat-irons ? became the core of seven large and busy specialty stores ? hung with the musty odor of face-powder, perfume and new clothes...
...fourth round where she played a tired little woman by the name of Wragg who came out on the first tee wearing hornrimmed spectacles, a leather jacket with a sweater under it, woolen stockings, thick shoes, and woolen gloves. Miss Collett, always natty, had on a thin blue raincoat. Warm and ugly, Miss Wragg kept her ball in the middle of the course. Miss Collett stopped before each shot to warm her fingers with her breath. "How do you feel?" asked a friend. "Rotten" answered Miss Collett. Miss Wragg...
When a horseman rides a great distance and receives warm welcome at the end, he usually supervises in person the care that is bestowed upon his animal. When aviators fly across an ocean, however, not quite the same sentiment attaches to the mechanical contrivance by means of which the trick was turned...
...long discussed methods by which the arrival of tourists along the frequently snow-bound Sierra highway may be facilitated. They approached a solution of their difficulties when someone suggested that the snowy road be underlaid with pipes and that the pipes then, be filled with steam, thus warming the road and melting the barrier upon its surface. Sixteen miles of the cold-beleaguered turnpike could be so coddled; boilers at four mile intervals would keep the water warm, wood from the near forests would warm the boilers. Two men could attend to feeding the fires. Prompted by this ingenious...