Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Angora is the capital of the Turkish Republic. Angora in August is dry and blindingly, witheringly hot. To convince effete young Turks that Angora in August is still humanly habitable. President Mustafa Kemal Pasha announced, last week, that he would cancel his usual trip to cool Constantinople, stay in Angora through the summer. Constantinopolitans were relieved. Last year Constantinople spent some $100,000 stringing lights, building triumphal arches to honor the Ghazi on his Bosporus vacation...
...Hepatica which clears the system promptly. There are Gastrogen Tablets, which relieve in digestion with none of the embarrassments of gas and rumbling. There is Ipana, the tooth paste you should use if you have Pink Tooth Brush. And, by a recent merger, there is Ingram 's, the cool shaving cream. Bristol-Myers showed a 1928 net income of $1,483,159 or with Ingram...
Chief witness at the meeting was Packard's Alvan Macauley. Cool, self-possessed, quiet, sure of his facts & figures, he read from a typewritten manuscript. To what he said few exceptions were taken. First he talked of U. S. Motors, the whole huge industry. More than 4,000,000 U. S. inhabitants derive an automotive livelihood. The industry consumes 18% of U. S. steel production, 85% of rubber, 74% of plate glass, 60% of leather upholstery, 18% of hardwood lumber, 27% of aluminum, 14% of copper. Last year it was third largest user of railroad equipment, shipped nearly one million...
...Francisco's season began last fortnight, in San Mateo's cool Woodland Theatre. At eight Sunday concerts, five eminent conductors-Bernardino Molinari, Alfred Hertz, Eugene Goossens, Ernest Bloch, Bruno Walter-will in turn lead the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra...
...Trade (1924), he waited on King George. A heavy scarlet robe covered his gnomelike figure. An ermine collar, seeming to grow out of his greyish-white Vandyke beard, lay hot and moist about his neck. A black cocked hat sat strangely above his shaggy, quizzical eyebrows. The usually cool and comfortable philosopher of the Labor movement who was for seven years an M. P. in the House of Commons, a member of the faculty of the University of London and is now for the second time a British Cabinet Minister, fidgeted nervously between his sponsors, Lord Parmoor and Lord Ashfield...