Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days seem like holidays in Hawaii but one day this week was exceptionally festive. The bright streets of Honolulu were crowded. The warm air throbbed with music. Guns boomed salutes, soldiers tramped. The U. S. Territory of Hawaii was inaugurating a new Governor. After eight years' service, Wallace Rider Farrington was turning his office over to Lawrence McCully Judd...
...faces, dances nightly a band of "hostesses." From vaudeville (where they have failed) they come, from little towns that seemed too slow, from little flats that seemed too small. Dancing is no pleasure to them. Dancing is their business. Be it the breath of a drunken sailor that blows warm past their cheeks or the wit of the dullest tomlinson that assails their ears, they must dance and sometimes smile...
...past year, summarizes another well-managed and on the whole successful season. As in past years winter sports, largely because of the popularity of squash and basketball, have called out more men than either fall or spring athletics. Tennis has again proved itself most popular in the seasons of warm weather...
...door creaked open and there was the friendly face of Dame Nellie Melba. Taking Ponselle's cold hands between her warm ones, the grand old prima donna delivered a warning: "Now, my dear Rosa, don't expect Covent Garden to be like your Metropolitan. Above all, don't expect applause for your great aria, 'Casta Diva.' A London audience wouldn't clap the Angel Gabriel himself until the curtain was down and the proper time for applause had arrived...
...resignation of Dr. Vögler did not at once bring about the warm spirit of co-operation among the German delegation which Parisian optimists hoped for. Dr. Schacht returned from his meditations still truculent. The German delegation, he said, could make no further compromise...