Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...showed her usual charm and originality. Her characterization as a whole was carefully thought-out; and her comedy scenes especially were most gracefully and delicately handled. All her points were enthusiastically received by an audience which delighted in applauding her. The Olivia of Miss Josephine Victor was marked by warmth and a keen perception of the romantic phases of the character--a conception which not only gave the part its true dramatic value, but which offered the actress a chance to display her utterly fascinating personality...
...intention to proclaim here that all men attending the Christmas Eve reception or one of the University teas or similar functions will, on crossing the threshold of Phillips Brooks House, feel immediately the warmth of comradeship with the members of the Faculty, or any particular professor who is more personally interested in the undergraduates as men than as students. We are certain, nevertheless, that such opportunities are often given, and that the President's reception next week is one which should appeal to a goodly number...
...Poetry of Edward Rowland Sill" is an interesting review, especially in its final pages. Though the style often shows an imperfect sense of the value of words, the writer's evident love of literature, his sympathy with his subject and, at times, his genuine warmth, make his work promising. His extracts from Sill's poetry are less impressive than he means them to be. "The Fool's Prayer," striking as it is, contains more truth than poetry, and would scarcely stick in the reader's mind except for the brilliant perversion at the end,--"O, Lord...
...intrinsic value of man considered apart from accidents of environment, the fundamental unity of the human race. These considerations should furnish some suggestions of the meanings of the incarnation which as the course of religious thinking in the West has frequently shown, may either be full of the warmth of reality; or narrow and exclusive with repellant technicalities. To wrangle with hair-splitting technicalities over the correctness and orthodoxy of such and such a creed, or to endeavor to interpret great and sacred mysteries in such a manner as to favor individual sects or religious is merely to pervert...
...contrast to last year's "Boodle & Co.," this more conservative comic opera pleased the older men by its return to the former style of Pudding theatricals. Its universal appeal, as shown by unanimous and spontaneous applause, lies in the spirited burlesque of Italian and romantic "atmosphere," occasional wit, and warmth of color and musical tone...