Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven once again displayed the pep and drive that was familiar in pre-Army days. Both players and coaches feel that the team gained valuable seasoning experience in the unfortunate West Point incident, and are entertaining hopes bordering upon convictions that the visitors from Hanover will receive a much warmer reception on Saturday than a 32-0 drubbing on the previous game day would seem to indicate...
...Lord Mayor of London and the city's leading bankers delivered last week by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. "The decision of France to readjust the value of the franc," said Mr. Chamberlain, "must have come like the cracking of the ice at the approach of a warmer season to a polar explorer whose ship has been frozen for months into immobility. ... If we can prevent violent fluctuations of the valuation of gold as ex pressed in terms of commodities, I see no insuperable obstacles in the way of our ultimately arriving at a currency system based...
...candidate patted its cheek, said: "He's a fine looking young man." After seven stops en route, the Landon Special pulled into Des Moines. The city's Democrats had apparently monopolized the streets near the railroad station to give the GOP Nominee the cold stare. Reception grew warmer as the procession reached the business section. Opposite the Nominee's hotel a small boy appeared carrying a Roosevelt placard. Several spectators grabbed for it. The urchin slipped behind a policeman, jeered: "It's a free country...
...British Legation issued twittery communiques which tended to alarm public opinion in Great Britain by assiduously insisting that nothing was the matter and that Dr. Neumann "found the King's ears in the same excellent condition as last year." Sensible Mrs. Simpson took the King out to buy warmer clothing lest he catch cold on a picnic shooting trip last week for partridges, of which His Majesty shot twelve...
Chill hotels and rooming houses! Perhaps Mr. Caffrey was seeking free board and room. There are many like that. There is no more welcoming smile, no warmer grasp of outstretched hand than that which is found at the open door of our hotels and apartment houses...