Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no dissent, only a warm clapping of hands-and beaming nods of appreciation from stocky, smiling Chang Chun himself...
...morning sun shone warm and bright. It looked like another great day for the war-fat Gulf port town of Texas City, Tex.-"The Port of Opportunity." Stores were busy, prosperous people "howdy'd" one another in the streets. Down along the waterfront, $125 million worth of oil refineries, tin smelters and chemical plants labored mightily to assure Texas City's future. Down there too was the only small blot on the day-the French freighter Grandcamp, loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and docked some 700 ft. from the great Monsanto Chemical Co. plant, was afire...
Somehow I had never expected Stalingrad, the worst blitzed city of the war, to be cheerful. But the people are as chipper as chipmunks. A woman with the fine, warm features of an old coin stopped to say: "This was a beautiful city." A friendly little fellow, quietly steeping himself in vodka at the hotel bar, came over to condemn Truman and then explained that tonight he was going to get only "culturally" drunk, that is to say, not stinkingly so. Another man saw us walking along the street by the theater, and because we were dressed differently from Stalingradites...
...they knew they had a good thing. Big, brown Faultless was born within 70 miles of Derbyville. on Calumet Farm's 1,038 fat acres. In March he won Florida's $50,000 Flamingo Stakes with ease; last week, he made three rivals look silly in a warm-up at nearby Keeneland...
With few old favorites left to warm their adjectives over, German critics pounced on newcomer Koerner. Those who supposed that his work showed the trend of U.S. art proudly concluded that painting in the U.S. had gone German. Koerner's painting did have the heaviness, the harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s. Along with My Parents, the show's strongest painting was The Prophet (see cut), which reminded critics of Expressionist Grosz and also of Koerner's favorite Old Master, Peter Bruegel. (Of his bony, monkey-like Prophet, Koerner...