Word: warms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alan Dale: "What one expects in warm-weather plays...
...taken in the administration of rural schools. The old one-teacher unit is going as fast as it can be replaced by grad-schools at convenient centers, served by fleets of motor buses. In Weld County, Colo., 26 modern school plants do the work of 85 weak schools. " Eighty warm, comfortable buses transport 2,510 children daily to the well equipped schools where they are taught by trained teachers." So speaks, not Mr. Babbitt, but the United States Department of the Interior. The central schools have auditoriums, community rooms, gymnasiums, athletic fields, libraries, lyceum courses. And the motor-drawn scholars...
Reading West of the Water Tower has convinced me that warm weather and realism do not go together. The effort is like that of digesting pork chops after luncheon on the Fourth of July. What a relief, therefore, to pick up a book like Freeman Tilden's Mr. Podd. Call it what you like ? burlesque, satire, sociological tract?it still remains funny, genuinely funny, and I have an idea that many of us will go a long way to hear of and then to find a really funny book. Mr. Podd is apparently on the way to the best...
Ismet's diplomacy was utterly successful. The warm and nervous delegates reached an agreement on concessions and the naval problem in a manner satisfactory to the Turks. The Turkish Petroleum Company's claims were dropped from the Protocol, and preferential rights cancelled for the Vickers-Armstrong and French Railway companies. Until ratification of the straight convention, Britain, France and Italy may each keep a cruiser and two destroyers on the Bosphorus; in any event this privilege must end next December...
Europe is in the grip of wintry weather. At the end of the Paris season, when every one usually leaves the capital for the seaside in order to escape the heat, Parisiens are to be found dressed in topcoats and mufflers and Parisiennes are none too warm in furs...