Word: chilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mellow firelight flickered about the office of the Secretary of the Treasury one morning last week, dappling its black leather arm chairs, glinting on the glass doors of its bookcases and softening the chill rain that fell outside. Behind his broad mahogany desk sat Andrew William Mellon, his thin patrician face a mask to his own reflections. Around the big room were scattered Treasury newshawks attending what would probably be their last press conference with this shy little man puffing meditatively on a black cigar no bigger than a cigaret. His career as Secretary of the Treasury was over; President...
...presidency of Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland, an insurance company run by the late Publisher Van Lear Black. In August 1921 he and his family embarked on Van Lear Black's yacht for their summer home at Campobello Island, N. B. Shortly after they arrived, Mr. Roosevelt caught a chill stamping out a forest fire. A cross-country run and a cold plunge in the Bay of Fundy seemed to help things, but when he got home he sat in his wet bathing suit to read his mail. He took another chill. Next morning he was down with infantile paralysis...
...thoughts have been tinged with the melancholy of the times and the sadness of youth faced with an uncertain future. There has been mingled in his soul a great desire to probe to the foundations and an equally strong fear and shrinking from exposing his inner workings to the chill light of analysis. But like the thief returning to the scene of his crime, the Vagabond returns again and again to his morbid pastime...
...rambling, soot-stained St. James's Palace the final plenary session began at 10 a. m. Small grate fires accented the palace chill. Shivering and snuffling, the delegates climbed the crimson-carpeted grand stair. They were grimly resolved to utter 33 prepared orations if it took all day and all night, which it very nearly...
...Queen Mary, in Sandringham, of a cold; Edward of Wales, in York House, London, of a chill suspected of indicating malaria; Editor Charles H, Dennis of the Chicago Daily News, in Chicago, of overwork; Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in Manhattan, following an operation for acute mastoiditis; Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, former President of the Reichsbank, at Warin, German, of injuries suffered in an automobile crash; John Work Garrett, U. S. Ambassador to Italy, at his Baltimore home, with a broken foot suffered when he tripped on a rug; Lieut.-Commander George Ottilie Noville, companion of Admiral Byrd on his North Pole...