Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that his bathroom there was blessed with a real tub. The next year when his dormitory was incorporated into a House, he moved away, aspiring successfully to a garret underneath a floodlit spire. But he has missed his tub terribly; he has longed many times for the warm artificial pond wherein he used to read, write themes, sleep, invent refreshments and occasionally washed...
Gourmet Albert Sarraut is one of France's great empire builders, a stocky, twinkly-eyed Senator with a warm sense of humor, an icy sense of duty and the charmed life of a tomcat. At the turn of the century Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau picked young Tomcat Sarraut as a likely scrapping partner in the bitter Dreyfus affair. As Clemenceau's Under- secretary of Interior, M. Sarraut was challenged by a certain Deputy Pugliesi-Conti to duel over the rehabilitation of Jew Dreyfus. He accepted "on condition that it is to the death." Tomcat Sarraut's seconds thought...
...Even if 67-year-old Author Holland should not live to complete his plan, readers will find The Death of a World integral in itself. Annette Riviere and her only son Marc do not join in the rejoicing with which Paris greets the Armistice. Annette's warm heart fears what will happen to Marc in the post-War maelstrom, but her cool head warns her to keep her hands off. They are very poor, and Annette steadfastly refuses to take money from her half-sister Sylvie. who as the shrewd mistress of a millionaire is riding high...
...this volume is on Locke, "the father of modern psychology," whom Mr. Santayana puts in his place in the history of thought. The second essay is on F. H. Bradley, the sturdy but mistaken moralist, for whom Mr. Santayana, unlike Mr. T. S. Eliot, does not cherish an excessively warm regard. There is, as the third essay, a highly suggestive consideration of the theory of relativity and the new physics. The suspicion is advanced that "even Einstein is an imperfect relativist, and retains Euclidean space and absolute time at the bottom of his calculation, and recovers them...
...forth, back an' forth, jest enough to let you know they're there. This is the fall o' the year, with the air so dang full o' haze that it looks like a lot o' spiders has been stringin' their webs around. Warm soft air, an' still it's got a bite in it, too. The days is gittin' late. Purty soon it'll be time to git out the old houn'-dog an' start out after coons, some o' these frosty nights, or maybe...