Word: colds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McNary coolly visioned not only the bill's strangulation but the wide-open splitting of the Democratic Party and the eventual use of the conservative Democratic wing by Republican strategists in a practical coalition which could not merely harass Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal but stop it cold. The conception was a brilliant, deadly parallel to the late T. E. Lawrence's masterly guerilla tactics in the Arabian revolt in the desert...
...Cold with anger, Franklin Roosevelt sat down and dictated a statement, denying that he and Cordell Hull had yet decided what to do next about neutrality, giving U. P. a piece of his mind. Excerpts...
...flowers in Tibet with famed Botanist Kingdon Ward, collected many rare plants, insects, snakes on his own 18-month scramble to find the source of Tibet's Black River, the Salween. He never found it, but he traveled some 3,000 miles of unexplored shingle on the freezing-cold roof of the world, earned the Murchison Grant of the Royal Geographical Society for his pains. There were plenty of them. Salween is probably the cheerfullest book ever written of discomforts ranging from intense heat among blood-sucking leeches to intense cold and a face so cracked by snow-burn...
Whether he is describing the sick terror in a Berlin Jewish apartment, twilight in the New Forest, or a Gestapo going-over ("Mr. Emmanuel was not a very satisfactory subject, for he fainted almost at once, and twice again during the proceedings. But on each occasion a jug of cold water revived him, and they got to work again"), Novelist Golding works for the reader's sympathy with practiced skill. He has that sympathy in full measure long before his battered but indomitable hero gets safely home again...
Because the late Financier Otto Herman Kahn's 86-room castle in Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. was too big for most present-day buyers' boots, the splendiferous estate went for a song ($100,000) to New York City's Department of Sanitation. Last week, renamed Sanita Lodge, it was thrown open to 22,000 street cleaners on vacation...