Word: cold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their quarrel arose because Miss Hix was jealous of his wife. Snook beat her four times over the head with an automobile hammer, cut her throat with a penknife, left her dead at a suburban rifle range where they had often trysted. Arrested, put on trial, Snook, cold, unmoved, said she had threatened to kill him, his wife, his young daughter, claimed he was emotionally insane, remembered nothing of his grisly deed. So vile was the testimony that no paper would publish it verbatim. Low-minded persons scavanged the official transcript, printed pamphlets omitting no horrid word, sold them...
...thin-lipped little Yorkshireman with the cold, drawn face of a stone gargoyle?that was Right Honorable Philip Snowden, Chancellor of His Britannic Majesty's Exchequer, as he bristled and battled last week at The Hague. What he wanted was for twelve nations to reopen the question of how German reparations are to be divided among the creditor powers. That question was closed at Paris (TIME, May 13. et seq.) when the Young plan was drafted by the countries' foremost financiers. In presenting their handiwork to European statesmen. Owen D. Young and his colleagues described it as "an indivisible whole...
...numb. Doctors at Ripley, her home, and Memphis, where she was hospitalized, sought causes-irritation of the stomach's mucous membranes, affection of the phrenic (diaphragm) nerve, peritonitis, sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica), methyl chloride escaping from a mechanical refrigerator. None of these were causative. They made her gulp cold water and hold her breath. That usually stops hiccoughs, but not Vera Stone...
Lady Drummond Hay, in knickers and leather flying coat, "clambered squirrel-like" (Von Wiegand description) along the girders of the ship's hull. She carried a Boston Bull pup, who was cold and, she decided, lonesome. Sir Hubert Wilkins clambered with her. Her cloth cat mascot remained in her cabin...
...have always considered you so cold-'I cautiously began...