Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sharp-tongued Martha Taft, the Senator's wife, barged into Rockford, Ill. last week and delivered herself of some comments on Harry Truman's new White House balcony (now complete except for final painting). If he sat on it every night all summer, and every warm night in May, she told a group of Republican women, it would cost the taxpayers $150 a night. "I should think he wouldn't want to sit on it," she added, "especially since it faces South. But perhaps he will install a swing and swing from right to left, and that...
...Paris, sidewalk cafés were lined with customers sipping aperitifs or spooning sweetened ices; children sailed toy boats in the stone-rimmed pond of the Luxembourg Gardens. In Italy, peasant women remarked on the number of hens laying two eggs a day; perhaps it was the warm weather. And in Western Germany, after one of the wettest and greyest winters in 20 years, the sun was shining again, fitfully, but shining...
...Assisi to be cured by the "breathing" Madonna atop the cathedral. Communists, scenting propaganda, countered with reports of another miracle: a statue of Garibaldi had dismounted from its horse, smoked a cigar and inquired about Vatican scandals. In Rome, the weather was fitful. Said one overcoated man: "It seems warm when the sun is up, but as soon as you walk into the shade the cold air catches you like a knife...
Stout, stern-faced Jesuit Riquet seems to Parisians almost a one-man revival in himself. Each Sunday during Lent-even when the warm promise of spring brought crowds to the sidewalk cafés and the banks of the Seine-49-year-old Father Riquet filled the cold, damp, dark interior of Notre Dame to capacity with the power of his preaching...
...first students to come to the International Rest Center at Salzburg was Inga Svarc, an Austrian art student. "We all came mentally and physically run down; we left with new hope and strength." After citing the work of Richard Campbell, Jr. '48 in organizing the Rest Center, she adds, "warm rooms and good food are such hard things to find in winter in Austria...