Word: warmers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When she got to the Red Cross's Washington Club on Curzon Street, the American doughboys greeted her with shouts of "Hi, Eleanor." In a short speech in the cafeteria-filled with the good smell of hot coffee and doughnuts-she made a motherly promise to the troops: warmer socks and faster mail. She left to see the rest of the country. As with her own countrymen, Britons did not know where her curiosity and energy would take...
...progressed into an H. G. Wells picture The Man Who Could Work Miracles as a nude god riding across the Milky Way. The shooting was done outdoors, at night, in midwinter. So he went to warmer Hollywood, where he made his debut menacing Tyrone Power and the British Empire in Lloyds of London. Lancer Spy was supposed to make a "supernova" of Sanders. "A super-nova," 20th Century-Fox explained, "is what astronomers call a big star which appears suddenly and shines with great brilliance." Instead, Sanders became one of the best scene stealers in the business...
...obvious that the Chinese, like the Russians, enjoyed Wendell Willkie. And he would obviously be a great warmer of the lukewarm Sino-Allied relations -if he had brought with him enough assurances of material help. Just what he had brought was a military secret. But in Chungking, as in Moscow, Wendell Willkie loudly called for greater United Nations action. At the Gissimo's banquet he said...
...days got longer, the weather warmer. Now came the black flies, horse flies, deer flies, the tiny "no-see-ums" that announce themselves only by a sting, and the mosquitoes. ("Why, over at Watson Lake, a mosquito landed on the airport and they put 85 gallons of gas into it before they realized it wasn't a bomber.") The insects made sweating, swollen hands look like grey fur. The engineers slapped and cursed till they got head nets and gloves...
...week's end the Russians said that German planes were dropping iron rails, plowshares, other clanging hunks into the city to demoralize besieged civilians. The Russians showed no signs of demoralization. Only the cold communiqués from Berlin, the warmer rhapsodies to valor from Moscow, indicated a slow Nazi ad vance. This week, on the eve of Hitler's second year in Russia, the question at Sevastopol was how much Nazi meat it would take to choke the grinder...