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...shivering and my limbs had been flexed in a sort of effort to huddle up, and I had been very conscious of the cold. Then a moment came when I stretched out my legs; the sense of coldness passed away, and it was succeeded by a beautiful feeling of warmth; the word 'bask' most fitly describes my condition: I was basking in the cold. What had taken place, I suppose, was that my central nervous system had given up the fight, that the vasoconstriction had passed from my skin, and that the blood returning thither gave that sensation...
Last week, girding himself for the toughest fight in his political career against "Cowboy Ben" Ross, Senator Borah turned up at Boise to say of his loyal constituency with unprecedented warmth and familiarity: "I do not believe any public man ever owed the debt of gratitude to the people whom he was seeking to serve that I owe to the people of Idaho. After 30 years of service and under rather involved circumstances, they have given anew their assurance of confidence. I prize this above all things that could come to me in the way of compensation...
...glorious swoop of spiritual freewheeling. In common with the body of Shaviana, Saint Joan turns on an agile inversion. But this inversion, the definition of a miracle as an event which creates faith, seems to spring from Shaw's heart instead of his head. A great, noble warmth suffuses the narrative from the time the tomboy Maid (Miss Cornell) makes de Baudricourt's hens lay in order to persuade him to horse and arm her, to the time she. reappears in the modern epilog as a mailed member of the hierarchy of heaven...
...Secretary of Commerce Roper's Business Advisory Council. That body of tycoons, now depleted by the resignation of numerous members disgusted with the way the President had ignored their advice for three years, also enjoyed a three-hour table discussion during which they basked in the equinoctial warmth of the Roosevelt smile...
...audience who remembered her sensational concert debut in 1923,when she appeared in Carnegie Hall as a plump, glossy-haired girl of 19, an unknown suddenly called upon to substitute for Soprano Anna Case. Subject for high praise then was the beauty of her voice, its vibrant warmth, its effortless production. Smooth singing was to be expected at her Metropolitan debut, and with the exception of a few strained top notes there was little fault to find. Surprise was to see her appear as a lithe, graceful woman 25 Ib. thinner than she used to be, to see an Aida...