Word: colder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zero. All North China was colder last week than in any winter since 1893. Thermometers said 35°F. below zero in Harbin, Manchuria. Ill-clad, scant-nourished Chinafolk died by hundreds in cities, by dozens in towns...
Ultimo is an imaginary record, written by a man of those far-future times, of what life was like to subterranean man. For as the ice spread and the earth grew colder, civilization either died or dug. First it "established itself around the equator, a civilization of peoples with one dominating idea-to continue to exist. Great circular cities were built consisting of low buildings which hugged the ground . . . cities like gigantic mushrooms, walled and roofed in materials magnifying the little warmth that still emanated from the sun, shutting out snow and cold." Finally even these failed. "Into the frozen...
...poem written by "Lncio" and published in the Manchester Guardian Weekly, an English magazine adds a little more to the sound thinking behind the "shorts" movement which is not dead now, but only dormant during the colder weather...
...admirable news-article entitled: The Coming Out Party, dealing with the life and works of Al Capone, omits one news-note. Among the people who saw him before he left the "pen" was his lawyer: U. S. Congressman Benjamin M. Colder, a son-in-law of Mastbaum, late satrap of cinemaland in Philadelphia...
Married. Margery Lee ("Peggy") Mastbaum, daughter of the late Jules E. Mastbaum, rich Philadelphia movie-chain owner; and Representative Benjamin M. Colder of Pennsylvania; at Philadelphia...