Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that, perhaps, is the best way to describe her part in the concert. It took her two songs to "warm up", and at times after that there were indications that she was not in best voice. But for the most part she sang beautifully; by the time she reached Strauss's "Mit deinen blauen Augen" she had recovered all her powers and from then on she gave a flawless and impressive performance. Of simple charm was Warlock's "That Even I Saw"; Respighi's "Pioggia" rivals Strauss's "Schlechtes Wetter" in picture painting; "From the Brake the Nightingale...
...Literary Digest article stresses the danger of overheated rooms. "65 to 88 degrees is quite warm enouth"-beyond that point men become lazy, and are apt to done in lectures. It gives further words of wisdom: "Don't go to any public meetings if you have a cold"-an important piece of advice; and "Don't sneze or cough except into a handkerchief"-if the student is wise, he does not cough at all during certain lectures in English course-for coughing has often been called "an unnecessary luxury...
...Boston symphony concerts, and deservedly; every hearing renews the impression that it is one of the most beautiful things in piano literature. Two years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch played it wonderfully; MM, Samaroff equalled his performance yesterday. The first movement as she gave it was fine as silk thread, warm, clear, lustrous; the remarkably fine execution of that very difficult syncopation in the last movement would alone have justified Mme, Samaroff's claim to the first rank of, musicianship. She is a superb artist, and played like...
True, neither Harvard or Yale is a Mr. Squeer's; but there are few who have not heard old graduates telling stories of Commons and old Grays Hall that rival "the unparalleled diet" and "warm rooms" of Dickens' famous institution...
...Vodka," said Lenin and Trotzky, and they raised their boots to the third button on the tail of Prince Michael's coat in order to help him through the door. And the long night was short and the cold night was warm to Lenin and Trotzky, because of the devilish little saint made of rye and barley and potatoes, the saintly little devil that trickles down one's throat and into one's stomach 'and so on,--Vodka...