Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith College, a former Director of the Y. W. C. A., a member of the D. A. R. But she is hardly typical as a woman of affairs-she keeps house herself, does her own marketing and has a face "that seems to have been cut out of warm marble." When Mr. Lansing was Secretary of State, every day at five o'clock she called at the private entrance of the State Department with her poodle and her electric coupé and took him for a ride. The Columbus Day conference over which she will preside will be addressed...
...after all, the old pump and John, the orange-man, are gone. Heated cannonballs are no longer necessary to warm the dormitories, and holidays are not celebrated by broaching kegs of beer in the college yard. The memory of these things may long be cherished, but they are really only part of the scenery; their modern descendants are the Waldorf and Terry, Jimmie's and the double-O, and without doubt these successors will be fondly remembered by present-day undergraduates. The traditions of Harvard are something different--something as old as Harvard but as alive today as ever...
...youth and slender grace are exactly what one imagines in the young Werther" is the remark of one news critic, while the same speaks a few lines later of the American's "warm, supple, and vibrant voice...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet: "A Eucharistic Congress at Zagre, Yugo-Slavia, was attended by a papal legate named Pilegrinetti. This holy man was met at the station by an emotional crowd of nuns and monks cheering loudly. The reason for his warm reception was that the Italian for ' papal legate ' is ' nunzio.' The good Yugo-Slavs had confounded their guest with me and were greeting him by my name...
...shallow, tepid water. The children sit on a circular bench in the tank with their legs immersed for several hours at a time. The device was suggested by a woman whose little daughter, crippled by the disease, was taken to Florida and allowed to spend much time in the warm water at the beach. The child recovered the use of her limbs and learned to swim. The medical fact underlying the treatment is that moderate heat causes increased blood supply in the parts affected, relieving inflammation and stimulating movement. The method has not yet been tried on a large scale...