Word: warming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conscious of Mrs. Thayer's care and thoughtfulness. For 36 years on an average of five nights a week she has given her time and charm to entertaining the boys of the various six forms, and to numberless returning graduates, their wives and children she invariably offers the warm welcome of a home. To St. Mark's graduates Dr. and Mrs. Thayer are synonymous names with that of St. Mark's and St. Mark's School is never mentioned without likewise mentioning Dr. and Mrs. Thayer...
...rightly considered one of the best, if not the best, team in its district. Carnegie Tech was by no means one of the best teams in the East. In spite of Coach Howard Jones' routine diatribes against self-confidence, his Trojans felt that the game was a warm up for New Year's Day and a Pittsburgh team that had beaten Carnegie Tech...
...first recognition by a Princeton undergraduate body of Wilson's death. Wilson's fellow Whig and classmate in Princeton's most famed class of 1879, Editor Robert Bridges of Scribner's† talked about his friend "Tommy" Wilson, brilliant conversationalist, Whig Speaker, undergraduate leader, "warm, human." Editor Bridges remembered the '79 reunion in the White House (1919), spoke feelingly of his classmate. Said he: "Wilson was not an austere bundle of principles. . . . He was always companionable, and there was no pose...
Eight out of eleven Oregonians took off their jerseys, played with their bare arms sticking out of their pads. They got one touchdown on a Florida pass but Quarterback Crabtree of Florida, used to warm weather, trickled 81 yards through them, and Ed Sauls and Red McEwen made two more. Florida 20, Oregon...
...prefers understatement. When it is necessary for him to lie in vinous stupor on a couch, he forms no such abandoned arabesques with his body as did John Barrymore, who acted an adaptation of this play (Redemption) several years ago. Deliberate, warm, avoiding histrionism. the current Fedya invites comparison rather with the splendid performance given by the famed German actor Alexander Moissi during last year's visit to Manhattan...