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...kitchen, but with their built-in furniture they had the neat efficiency of cruiser cabins and galley. There was nothing to sweep under, and no space to mislay things. The two bathrooms had overhead infra-red lamps to take the chill off. Neutra, with his characteristic attention to detail, had taken down a hanging from his own house to show Mrs. B. how the living-room draperies should be made...
Soot filled every pore, inflamed the eyes, lodged in the scrotum and caused the horrid "sooty-wart" or "chimney sweeper's cancer." Many boys were made consumptive by the lack of food, the damp cellars where they slept on soot-bags, and the chill of early mornings when they tramped the streets crying, "Sweep for the soot O! Sweeeup!" at the top of their poor, frayed lungs...
...paintings on exhibition, only four were attributed directly to Leonardo. The rest, wavering between chill sentimentality and brown gloom, either anticipated or copied the Master's favorite tricks: chiaroscuro (strong contrasts of mingled light and shadow), sfumato (blurring of outlines to suggest space), geometrically involved compositions and ambiguous half-smiles...
...shot into the lead at the start, in a driving rainstorm, and stayed in front by a length or two to the homestretch. There, mud-loving Palestinian caught him and forged slightly ahead. Jockey Eddie Arcaro stung Olympia once with the whip, then gave the form players a chill by hand-riding the horse through the last sixteenth...
...abstractions that seem to waver, cloudlike, on the edge of recognizability. One of them, representing Tlaloc the rain god, is a face formed of two writhing snakes, set so as to be reflected in a sunken pool. The tower of the god of air is so designed that a chill draft eddies through it on the stillest days...