Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard men have done away with all the ostensible mass manifestations of Rah, for such commotions have no place in a metropolitan community. A few ardent spirits warm to their illusion once in a while and make a few bows to Rah but they cease even to be funny when unwilling onlookers or passers by are involved. Even hazing long since has been given a one way ticket to somewhere. And the whole Harvard community seems the better for its absence. Jokes are jokes and horseplay is horseplay as long as the jokers and horses are gentlemen...
...delivered half the Oklahoma delegation to Herbert Hoover at the Kansas City convention and helped mightily to carry the State for the Republican presidential nominee. When in 1929 President Hoover asked him if he would serve as Assistant Secretary of War, "Pat" Hurley flashed his warm Irish smile and replied: "Mr. President, I'd crawl on my hands and knees to get that office." When the Hurleys arrived in Washington they were so overawed by the capital's society that they used to practice their entrances and exits at a mirror before dining...
...rest of the men worked feverishly unloading crate after crate of rifles, machine guns, ammunition. Another party of rebels was waiting in Gibara with an ancient wood-burning locomotive and three creaking freight cars. These were run down to a siding and loaded. It was a filibuster to warm the heart of any revolutionist...
County officers, State troopers and Ford Motor Co. service men mobilized for a manhunt. Two Negroes gave them warm clues. One said he had dreamed that three men did the murder. Later he had seen David Blackstone, a strapping Negro hot tamale peddler, and inquired: "How come you cut your hand, Hot Tamale?" whereupon Blackstone had begun to shake from head to foot. The other informer gave the police a pistol, said it had come from Blackstone's landlord. Before daybreak Blackstone had been arrested with Fred Smith, white ex-convict. All day they withstood questioning, finally broke down...
...improved Since her last Eastern campaign in 1929. In the semifinals, against Marion Zinderstein Jessup, a member of the first ten a decade ago, it looked as though she had gone back. Mrs. Jessup outdrove her in the first set, led at 4-2, and only lost the warm match 6-4, 6-3. Two days later Mrs. Moody thoroughly confused her critics by beating her fellow Californian, Helen Jacobs, 6-0, 6-0, in 32 minutes...