Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pearson: We shall try to warm up the member from New Zealand...
...sunny, warm weather in the capital was a big help. Washingtonians, habitually cool toward visiting bigwigs, turned out half a million strong to greet El Presidente as he rode from the airport to the White House in Harry Truman's big Lincoln. The State Department had seen to it not only that Government workers were dismissed early for the occasion, but that Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues were well hung with Mexican flags and Bienvenido, Don Miguel signs. Bands were everywhere...
Perfunctory Venom. In Paris the sun shone on the Red Flags bordering the Place de la Concorde. But in the warm spring air the paraders sauntered listlessly, shouting their war cries with only perfunctory venom. A few demonstrators shouted: "A has la politique du dollar!" (Down with dollar diplomacy!)* in front of a Marxist movie from the U.S.-A Night in Casablanca, starring Groucho, Chico and Harpo. A woman stood weeping as she watched the Red Flags flutter close to France's own tricolore. "In the days of the occupation," she said, "Nazi flags, too, were sandwiched between French...
Moviegoers didn't exactly stampede the nation's box offices during the last couple of months. Local theatermen, according to Variety, offered various explanations for the slump. First there was the Lenten lull. After Easter, the weather was too warm in some parts of the country-and in other parts too rainy or too cold. Manhattan was too busy with its vaccinations. Some exhibitors just admitted that the movies they were offering were nothing to stampede about...
Although not all the end candidates showed up for spring efforts, most notable among the absentees being George Haupt-fuhrer and Walt Coulson, the pass catchers present drew occasional warm praise from Harlow. John Fiorentino, Wally Flynn, and several Freshmen played most of the football at this position...