Word: warms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Station, Attorney General Homer Cummings and RF Chairman Jesse Jones said farewell to him. and he was off to the Pan-American Peace Conference at Buenos Aires. From that hour, time failed to march on as rapidly as the seasons. It was an early spring next morning at Charleston, warm May next evening in the Gulf Stream, sweltering summer four days later at Trinidad. For Franklin Roosevelt was off over the rim of the calendar...
With the heat turned off in the big plant, the sitters-800 men, 300 women- were reported bundling to keep warm. On the second day the company began turning the heat on & off every few hours. Unperturbed, the sitters produced concertinas, danced, found messengers' roller skates, skated. Games of bridge, poker and pinochle got started. Youngsters got up an amateur hour. "It's a picnic!" they shrilled to friends outside...
...ingeniously that terrified suspense bangs on the turn of each ironical development. Ghastly irony is this drama's most lethal weapon, and it is called into play so effectively and so frequently that the unhappy spectator is harrowed sick. A forlorn halfwit, for example, driven out of his warm shelter by the gangster villain, picks up a cigarette butt discarded by that villain, and by lighting it unconsciously gives a signal that draws fire from the villain's underling and thereby kills the villain...
...screen portraiture of hearty, colorful U. S. types. Lifted this time from Edna Ferber fiction instead of history, the subject is Bernard Glasgow, Wisconsin lumber millionaire. The result, against a background first of lumber camps and small-town saloons, later of early 20th-century urban plutocracy, is an extraordinarily warm and lively picture of one of the few romantic aspects of the U. S. which the cinema has so far neglected...
...spirit of the navy has worked changes! Lighthouses in the Leverett windows and salty coils of rope dangling from the music platform. On with the dance till midnight curfew told us we were indeed yet in Boston and must still pay homage to the Puritan. Back in the tower, warm with the dance and warmer with the wine, to fall back and dream of operas and sports, of Gilbert and rows of men in blue coats...