Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resident of Honolulu and a public prosecutor there manager Desha's "warm feeling" for his alma mater prompted him to arrange the tour. Although Hawaiian participation in the National A.A.U. Tournament is not an innovation, the Cambridge visit...
...Warm sun, a relatively dry field, and a trace of real baseball weather in the air lured the batsmen into the great outdoors, along with a sprinkling of team uniforms, baseball chatter, and interested onlookers. Practice Monday and prior to the vacation road trip was held in the dusky confines of Briggs Cage...
...various pastels-one in baby blue. Decor runs to silver zigzag-patterned wallpaper, thick cream rugs. The bric-a-brac is Brobdingnagian. Twice married, twice divorced, Griffis keeps his current philosophy, stitched in a sampler, hanging on a wall of his pine-paneled library: "High hopes faint on a warm hearthstone. He travels the fastest who travels alone...
Since January, blizzard after blizzard had struck Eire, until three-quarters of the land was covered with a two-foot layer of granite-hard ice. There is a tradition that on March 17 Saint Patrick turns "the stone warm side up" to make the soft, drying west wind blow over Ireland. Two days before the Saint's day, a thaw came, but with it a ten-hour fall of rain and sleet. Ireland's rivers boiled in swollen anger, flooding the lush valleys in Meath, Carlow, Athlone, Cork and Wexford. In Kilkenny town the floods were the worst...
Life and the Dream mixes warm, fond Irish reminiscence with some pretty cranky anecdotes about life & letters in the U.S., to which the Colums emigrated in 1914. Mrs. Colum is still angry at people who "misunderstood" her critical volume, From These Roots (1937). She is none too sure of the merits of various others, from Amy Lowell and Hart Crane to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt...