Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been the object of romantic interest rather than of affection. A pleasing exception is little Nell Gwynn, capricious blossom of the London gutters, mistress of light-headed Charles II. England has always loved the orange girl and actress of old Drury. She was said herself to have had a warm and kindly heart. Almost the last words of her cynical royal protector were said to have been: "Let not poor Nelly starve...
...Lely, chief court painter to Charles II. It was sold by Grosvenor Clarkson to Mary Coleman, Inc., and shows little Nell, as Venus, reposing naked on colored silk draperies, a cupid by her side. Her eyes and hair are brown, her lips ripely red, her flesh tones soft and warm...
...will sit on them Presidential chair of Mexico which President Obregon has kept warm these past few years. At a dinner given to him by the Chamber of Commerce, Señor Calles, having eaten "busily of filet, partridge, salad and mousse," stood up to indicate the policy that his administration would follow. Enthusiastic applause greeted him. Standing with his back to the Stars and Stripes, his bulging shirtfront "full of chest," his chin sticking out "like a fist held in front of his face," the President-elect began : "Señores capitalistas," and continued in Spanish...
...Here was a lady in a Paris ballgown, younger, slimmer than great divas are wont to be; she positively looked as if she were about to be emotional. The brilliant and the chilly sniffed; Galli-Curci sang. Her first song was Se tu m'ami, an old fall warm as the yellow wine, soft as the jargoning fountains of Italy. That was a mistake. Her next, a number from Dinorah, came more welcomely; it had a thinner flavor. The coldness of her music increased; the warmth of the audience increased commensurably. She sang Bishop's Pretty Mocking Bird...
With a particularly cold and long winter at hand, according to the predictions of the weather man, there will be an unusually large demand for warm clothing for the poor. With this fact in view, the Phillips Brooks House is endeavoring to do all in its power to make the drive a success...