Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although perhaps lacking the personal touch, a gift that will warm the cockles of any male heart is a product indigenous to Kentucky, particularly pleasant when wrapped in Christmas ribbon and bottled in bond. In short, whoever you may be, offer not badfnerle.Shown above is probably the most useless Christmas gift ever given to anyone: a wax dummy in a top hat. Everyone knows that wax dummies look better in fedoras...
...from the justly famed American Friends Service Committee speaks for the accuracy of the press' reporting: ". . . One of our representatives . . . [has] returned from a trip he made for us to the Navajo territory. He confirmed everything that TIME had revealed. . . . We are sending immediately 8,000 pieces of warm winter clothing, 1,000 pairs of shoes, 4,000 new children's garments...
...morning last week, a hearty, smiling man with a grey mane and snapping eyes stepped out of his airplane and into the warmest welcome that a grateful nation could give a favorite son. Bands tooted, crowds cheered, and friends and relatives rushed forward to be crushed in his warm abraco (hug). Oswaldo Aranha, president of the General Assembly of the United Nations, was back home...
...first trip to Europe, at 22, Butler was armed with letters to Pope Leo XIII, William Gladstone, Otto von Bismarck, John Henry Cardinal Newman. That was only the beginning. "It has been my happy fortune," he wrote later, "to meet, to talk with and often to know in warm friendship almost every man of light and learning during the past half century...
...could stand more variety: only the clash between Blanche and Stanley (brilliantly enacted by Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando) gets real emotion and drama into the play. As in much recent writing about the South, the ugliness is easily offset by the fascination, and the South itself seems warm, vaporous, even visible in Streetcar, like steam on a windowpane...