Word: chilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiasts, eagerly sniffing the chill autumn air for snow last week, suddenly found a healthy January blizzard raging in their samovar. For Emile Allais, who last February at Chamonix won the International Ski Federation's World Championship by taking firsts in the slalom and downhill races, laid down a new and highly controversial rule for skiing. All skiing turns should be abandoned, said Champion Allais, excepting the pure Christiania and the parallel Christiania. The French Ski Federation heartily concurred with its champion and, when his Le Ski Français was published last week at Bellegarde, a small town...
...Alleghany Corp., holding company for the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real-estate empire (TIME, May 3 et seq.). Since then a bitter autumn has swept bleakly through the financial forest. Last week it became known that the Babes in the Woods had also felt the chill wind. With no cocktails and canapes for the press such as accompanied the original Alleghany sale, it was revealed in a routine report to the Securities & Exchange Commission that Frank Frederick Kolbe, one of the original Babes, had sold...
...deciding to send Lord Halifax to Berlin to confer with Hitler, (see p. 22), rushed back to London in the state of overexcitement which has put him to bed several times before at tense moments (TIME, April 15, 1935, et seq.), announced he had "gone to bed with a chill." Viscount Halifax's departure for Berlin was speeded up by one day, and the New York Times learned that "humiliated" Mr. Eden had "tried to resign" and was "on the verge of resignation again." U. S. women's clubs, which have been cabling Ambassador Davis plea after plea...
...streaks widened in the east, the young Armenian climbed the scaffold, calmly told his grim-faced audience that "an insult motivated my crime." In an ironic gesture he willed the revolver he used to the U. S. Congress. Then, with hands strapped, hood over his eyes, he pierced the chill silence with a shout, "A bas Washington!" (Down with Washington!). The trap was sprung and his body plumped down through the opening, jerked to a sudden stop as the rope became taut...
...Caldwell and Photographer Bourke-White went down to look things over. After a year and a half of investigation they returned with a skeletonized, unemotional array of case histories, native opinion, commentary and camera evidence on the drearines's and degradation of plantation workers' lives that will chill the stomachs of Northern readers, may remove what charm remains for them in Mammy songs...