Word: warms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. For its acute penetration of the French and English tempers, its rich, complete personalities, its sure, translucent substantiation of subtle motives, its warm humanity, its rare good taste and rarer good humor, this is as fine a book as one might ask for. The dignity of mind and manner are those of a gentlewoman; the cool, easy prose and the bookmanship are those of a gentlewoman of letters...
...Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, executive head of the U. S. Navy, taking courage from the warm reception his blunt remarks in favor of aggressive warfare had received the week before, continued blunt. He charged England with instigating the 1920 Washington Conference on Limitation of Armaments in order that the U. S. Navy might be reduced and Britannia left free to rule the world's commerce. Sir James Arthur Salter, onetime Assistant Director of the Transportation Department at the British Admiralty, thereupon arose. Said he: "I assure you upon my honor. ... I have never in the most intimate private...
...discussion ensued lasting through lunch, coffee and cigars. On the committee was one man who tipped back his chair against the wall of the private dining room, chewed his cigar, but otherwise appeared to be in a trance. He was an Irishman, old, affluent, and warm and ripe with experience...
Summer is the accepted time for musical comedies. Best relief from warm temperature can be had at Kid Boots, Chariot's Revue, Keep Kool...
...June are indeed the months of manna. When the warm weather arrives, colleges and universities the country over turn to considerations of general improvements, special equipment, new buildings, and graduate schools. Yielding to the impulse of the season, they spread their blankets, like the Israelites, and burn candles to the gods of generosity...