Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their New York City reception last week was warm enough to take the arctic chills out of their bones. When it was all over and they were all thawed out, they quietly slipped out of town, soon to return to duty...
...including U.S. officials, bankers and businessmen flown down from the mainland, watched the ceremony and inaugural parade from a grandstand on the steps of the marble Capitol. Munoz took the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice Angel de Jesús, shook hands with the judge, exchanged a warm abrazo with retiring Governor Jesus T. Pinero. Then Muñoz spoke to his people...
Thirteen Steps. It had been unseasonably warm in Tokyo, but on the last day it turned cold. The seven were notified of the execution time 15 hours beforehand. Tojo said, jokingly, in English: "Okay, okay." He thanked the prison warden for decent treatment, and said he had been afraid that he would be snatched from bed and executed so quickly that he would not have time to express properly his gratitude to the authorities...
Brazil's year-old Museu de Arte was jammed with granfinos (upper-crusters). Outside in the warm spring rain, hundreds more art lovers queued up, patiently awaiting their turn. It was the opening day of Cândido Portinari's first exhibition in Sāo Paulo in 14 years...
...other kind" of tootlers, e.g., Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. "What the jazz boys have done with the clarinet," says Kell, "is colossal." Goodman was one of the first to greet him on his arrival, and at lunch later at the Stork Club, complimented him on his "free and warm" playing on records of Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. As for playing "the other kind" himself, Kell once made a record of Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet, but admits that "In a jam session, I'm like a rabbit at a stoat's tea party...