Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a peculiar expression which is seen on the faces of people pitching horseshoes. It is an expression dreamy yet intense, a good deal like that worn by anyone who is composing poetry or worrying about his digestion. This was the expression which through a warm afternoon last week in St. Petersburg, Fla., appeared on the face of Charles C. Davis of Columbus, Ohio, and was not noticed because it also appeared on the face of his opponent, a young man named Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan. Without taking off his cracked and faded straw hat Davis tossed horseshoes...
Seven years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was struck down in his prime (aged 40) by infantile paralysis. He fought back, not only at his own crippled condition but at the effects of the disease upon others. The Georgia Warm Springs Foundation Hospital at Warm Springs in Georgia, is largely his work and his energy encouraged notable developments in restorative therapy...
While the huzzahing crowds waited and as he gulped the warm meal his mother had set for him, he told her what he had superlatively done: 1) the longest one-man continuous flight; 2) the longest flight in a light airplane; 3) the fastest journey from England to India; 4) the fastest journey from England to Australia; 5) the first non-stop flight from England to Rome...
...baby basset hound was far away from all this turmoil. Unconscious as yet that his coat is more sleek and warm than that of ordinary basset hounds, not knowing that his dark eyes have in them a more perfect lustre or that his bandy legs have a more effective warping, he slept in the early evening, dreaming, doubtless, of rabbits in which a basset hound delights. For him, there will be a year more of fields and country kennels. Then he will go to his first show. It will surprise...
Tony also encountered talent of another type-Natalie, the wife of Arthur Gortion. She was a Russian noblewoman of dark, warm beauty. Gortion had begun to look on her as an indiscretion of his youth; she locked her door at night and saw little of him or of the townsfolk. So it was natural that Natalie and Tony, both out of place in Berkenmeer society, should become illicit lovers. One day, Tony took her away. He obtained money from Berkenmeer boosters, hostile to Gortion, to form an aviation company. Natalie and he went barnstorming at county fairs, grabbing quick lunches...