Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day the warm Madeira sun shone upon sweltering tourists, upon monkey venders feeding sugar cane to their wares, upon Portuguese loafers strolling about with a sow on a string, upon swart policemen impressively asleep- finally upon the Earl of Birkenhead who walked in a bathrobe, worn toga-fashion, beside a pool into which no one cast ?100. That evening the so dapper gentlemen were merry. What a joker His Lordship was, to be sure! Mr. Shaw was not half so clever. Haw! Pretended he would jump into the pool, haw! Who but His Lordship would even have thought...
...realize it. I remember very vividly just how it feels to be hungry, damnably hungry, and not warm, and wondering where to sleep. Once you've had that, you can never afterward forget that somehow or other this society has a responsibility to its weak people who can't make peace with it enough to get on. Once you've been scorched-oh, well, I sound like a socialist...
...Army recruiting officers are expected to be good salesmen. Upon the city streets they often select their dejected-looking prospects, slap them on the backs, say: "Brace up ... be a man . . . join the Army ... it is warm now down in Texas and Georgia; there are hopes and thrills out in Hawaii...
...time the Fogg Museum has been interested in promoting student activity in the more accessible fields of collecting. Typical examples of subject matter and technique compose this Degas "show". Early pastels of ballet dancers and late wash drawings indicate a wide range. The color scheme of cool grays and warm tints shows Japanese influence. Interesting compositions are noticeable throughout...
...bartender gave his name as H. H. Tammen. He had started life as a waif, he said, who had found shelter in a Philadelphia saloon, where he became cuspidor and errand boy at the age of seven. It was warm in the saloon, there was free food and from the beer-spotted newspapers left by customers he had learned how to read. He was, he guessed, clever as a kid, for he had risen swiftly to heights of bartending. Before he was 21 he had reigned over a prodigious expanse of dazzling brass and mahogany in the Palmer House, right...