Word: warmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the closing of six successful Broadway productions last week and the approach of warmer weather which will later hatch out the summer's setting of girl-shows and revues. Manhattan critics began to take stock of the past season. Subtracting the six that quit last week (Journey's End, Berkeley Square, International Revue, A Month in the Country, The Plutocrat, Subway Express), 32 shows remained on Broadway, seven less than were running at the same time last year. In retrospect, some unique features of the past season could be noted...
...Thus they maintain normal temperatures. The smaller the animal the higher is likely to be its body temperature. Temperature of a mouse is 105.8°, rabbit 102.0°, dog 100.0° to 102.0°, man 98.6°, horse 96.8° to 98.6°. Children are about one degree warmer than adults...
...Humidity, more exactly relative humidity, is the amount of water vapor in the air. The warmer the air at any height the more vapor it can carry. A humidity of 60 means that the atmosphere is 60% saturated...
...many noted the inevitable change when he came on stage carrying a full-sized violin. The chubby legs were longer. The accustomed white suit had been changed for a solemn black one. But when he played Beethoven's D Major Sonata he showed increased technical skill, broader and warmer tone, more mature style. Even more amazing was the manner in which he accomplished a hazardous Bach sonata unaccompanied. His audience cheered loudly and many who had transferred his title of "greatest wunderkind" to the startling and even younger violinist Ruggiero Ricci (TIME, Dec. 9) at once restored...