Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paradoxically Barney Barnato, who feared neither man nor the wild beasts of Africa, was bedeviled by two maladies: 1) a fantastic psychic dread that he might lose his millions and have to peddle in the streets again; 2) an incurable eczema which prickled him unbearably in warm weather. One day, as he was journeying from Africa to England, he leaped from the ship, drowned...
...delegation of peasant women, laden with wreaths for their Queen, had fallen asleep in the warm stuffy waiting-room, and, as no one woke them up, they snored on. Marie of Rumania was home...
Bangkok, fair capital of warm lagoons and stately public buildings, rang last week with two sensations as opposite as her dozing Buddhist temples and clanging modern street cars...
...romantic movement is one full of contradictions. Not only was it most thoroughly un-Greek, but at the same time there arose a great interest and almost worship of Greece. It was a fair land of flowers and warm sunshine, of snowy temples and exquisite statues, of liberty and freedom. In this setting lived the Greek, the ideal being to whom the romanticist looked back with yearning as to something very dear which has been lost. Yet it is needless to say that this Greek was as inconsistent with the facts as was the conception of the golden land...
...Banana Comedy", as is well known and therefore bears repeating, is a comedy about bananas. With the singular grace peculiarly his own, Mr. Soldhis has contrived from the fruitful exploits of Joe Banana a long, unwieldy and often humorous farce in five acts and a pair of warm winter woolens...