Word: warms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once upon a time there were three bears-a papa bear, a mama bear and a baby bear. Papa bear liked his porridge very, very hot. Mama bear liked her porridge "just hot." Baby bear liked his porridge only warm. But it was quite impossible for cook to make three kinds of porridge every morning. So cook made up a batch of porridge that was the same temperature as if she had made some veryvery hot porridge, some just-hot porridge, some only-warm porridge, and mixed them together. Papa bear grumbled that it wasn't right. Mama bear...
...latest immigrant from Moscow to arrive at Tiflis was Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of Commissars. He and War Lord Trotzky will strive to recuperate in the warm climes of sunny Georgia, one of the Caucasian Republics...
...smitten with awe at moving among elegant folks in grand surroundings. With a first act that sparkles and others that go diminuendo, Miss Zoë Akins remains the broad-jumping playwright. She leaps off with a great rush, then loses momentum. Elsie Ferguson recovers in the courtesan role the warm, stirring undercurrent of her earlier acting. Throwing off the cataleptic spell of the cinema, she no longer seems to be waiting for a closeup. Except for a farewell scene, Sidney Blackmer has the cold, damp passion of a clay statue. He seems hardly to have the resolution to kill himself...
These two "friendly enemies" had in their turn a predecessor in the pre-Civil War days which was one body and known as "Parliament, or Debating Society. Its arguments on slavery often served to heat an otherwise chilly room by means of abundant, fervid productions. Just how warm the rivalry between the present parties will turn out to be, remains to be seen, but it is doubtful whether, lacking the lubrication which was indispensable in the older clubs, the speeches will have that old time flavor, and fiushed conviction...
...especially warm in his praise of William James, Josiah Royce and Hugo Munsterberg...