Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neville Chamberlain has publicly buried his own appease-the-dictators policy, it was evident last week that such an old habit would die hard. Correspondents even suggested that the Cabinet's Stop Hitler campaign was welded more by the white-heat of public indignation than by any new warmth for a showdown by the Government. Mr. Chamberlain admitted, however, that the present was no moment for him to go flying to see Führer Hitler again as he did last September...
...friend, Louis Adamic, "Maxo" Vanka has a love of poor people and a tireless zeal in studying them. Among his sepia drawings were two that made many a visitor gulp with humanitarian rage: spots of sunlight on a wall under Brooklyn Bridge with bums standing in each spot for warmth; three old slatterns on an alley bench, one drunk and swollen, clinging to elegance with a shawl, one still sturdy and vicious. But the best things in the show were Artist Vanka's palette knife paintings, smooth, slightly van Goghish, brilliantly composed, of a Bowery poolroom, a small-time...
Again anent the New Zealand egg story: Ewell Shields wishes to know what manner of man can be quiet enough, long enough, to hatch an egg by body warmth (TIME...
...raid, carrying his baby under his good arm, was looking for his wife and remaining children, who he did not know had been killed in the same air raid; new born babies nestling beside new born lambs; soldiers and civilians sleeping among flocks of sheep for warmth...
...rings with martial clamor, abounds in striking personages, lights up momentous times. In Part I, the rebellion of the Percys and their confederates against Henry IV opposes the heedless, gallant Hotspur to the cooler, better-balanced Prince Hal. There is rousing theatre in Hotspur's eloquent defiance; warmth in his half-boyish, half-intense love scene with his wife; pathos in his death...