Word: cold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lately uncovered in the County Clerk's office. No public outcry followed. A favored group, through special fire regulations, controlled the sale of tank trucks for gasoline distribution in the city. Even the charge that this monopoly had chiseled $2,500,000 from the public left the voters cold. Arnold Rothstein, famed gambler, was murdered last autumn (TIME, Dec. 24). His murderer still remains unapprehended. Most New Yorkers have heard that the "inside story" of this crime involves so high a Tammany official that the Walker administration had to switch Police Commissioners, as a sop, to divert popular attention...
...depressed by this possibility, last week devoted as much time to the agile Welshman as to their Socialist opponents. Bland, moonfaced Winston Churchill, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose modest suggestion of a fourpenny (8?) reduction in the tax on tea has been received by the electorate as very cold pie indeed compared to the Liberal mouth-watering promises of Lloyd George, was particularly bitter...
...beating of breasts, disposing of chattels at the arrival of "the end of the world"-and much surprise when the world went on. The Siamese were much upset for fear of royal disasters produced by the eclipse. At the eclipse of 1868, King Rama IV, an amateur observer, caught cold from exposure and died of pneumonia...
Innocents of Paris (Paramount). Maurice Chevalier is a French cabaret singer known in the U. S. only to the few who have heard him in Paris, or on nights when he did not have a cold during his short engagement this spring in Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic (TIME, March 4). He had been built into a cinema celebrity with the most expensive and intense advertising campaign ever invested in a foreign actor. In this talkie he pulls a little boy out of a French suicide-river so that he can sing to him. He is poor, penniless, a junkman...
...from a five-day, but from a seven-night job came one early experience from which Mr. Ley learned a lesson which later was to stay well by him. He was earning $1 weekly as lamplighter for Worcester, Mass., gas lamps. Twice, on cold January nights, he skipped one light on his beat For the first omission he was rebuked; for the second, discharged. Said Mr. Ley, many years after: "The greatest of all virtues is thoroughness. Nothing is ever really done until it is done right. This lesson I learned early in life...