Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago had been so eagerly drafted had not produced in November the votes which were expected. He failed to poll as many votes in New York as Franklin Roosevelt. Having proved a liability rather than an asset his welcome at the White House was not quite so warm, and patronage favors ceased to flow liberally in his direction. Since shortly after the last election Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman have no longer been close friends...
Racing for the America's Cup starts with a challenge to the New York Yacht Club, custodian of yachting's No. 1 trophy since 1857. It continues, when the challenge is accepted, with trials to select a defender. For the past month, in light, warm winds, three candidates for the honor of defending the America's Cup raced each other day after day on the sparkling summer ocean off Newport, R. I. They were Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, Chandler Hovey's Rainbow and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's new Ranger. Last week, the trials...
...back-to-work sentiment hardening into effective political pressure, Governor Davey announced that the Right to Work was as "sacred" as the Right to Strike. To his troops flashed orders to protect all workers who wanted to return to their jobs. The same militiamen who had received such a warm welcome when they marched into the Mahoning Valley early in the week were now roundly damned by the union as public strikebreakers...
...warm U. S. tourists bustled and Panamanian loafers ogled in the railway station at Colon, C. Z., one day last week, few noticed a swart, perspiring gentleman who descended from the Panama City train with his wife and five children in tow. But everyone turned in terror as with a sudden ccr-a-a-c-k a fierce-eyed fellow lashed out at him with a horsewhip. Soon the two were grappling for a revolver, rending the air with torrid Spanish curses. Police intervened and hustled both men off to jail...
After a night and morning of anxious waiting by botanists with 400 spectators flattening their noses against the greenhouse glass, a fleshy spathe began to unfurl from the spadix and spread out in a bell-shaped bloom. The bell was greenish yellow outside, warm maroon inside. At full bloom the circumference of the bell's lip was 12 ft. 10 in. By this time the plant had begun in earnest to emit its characteristic odor-a sickening carrion stench...