Word: cool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memoirs, Kaufman had ignored a subpoena to testify. Before a warrant for his arrest could be served on him, he had secretly fled from Hollywood to Manhattan. "There won't be any settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite a play about life in jail!" In Manhattan the high-strung dramatist faced newshawks after three days in seclusion. "I assure you that I took all this very hard," said George Kaufman. "There...
Instead of a sweltering day in Topeka, it was a cool evening in Chicago. Instead of a rural throng of picnicking Kansans on the State House lawn, it was an urban crowd of 20,000 packed into Chicago's enclosed Stadium.* Instead of the flat prairie voice of Alf M. Landon, it was the boom of Frank Knox. But the difference was more than a difference of weather, crowd, voice...
...pajamas, they are from the Lido- in Italy, you know!" confided Mr. Youssef. "Where you American men make a mistake is in letting the women of your country wear comfortable pajamas whenever they wish but never permitting yourselves the comfort of the same easy, cool clothing." With Mrs. Youssef now traveling in Egypt and Mrs. Troyanovsky motoring in California, the two diplomatic summer bachelors last week decorously played bridge. "I don't fish because I haven't the patience," explained Comrade Troyanovsky. "I enjoy crabbing because there you catch something...
...fruitful work. . . ." Scanning plans for improvements to St. Peter's Square, he remarked: "When a man is 80 years old, he cannot make too far-distant dates." Last fortnight, on the eve of the feast of St. Peter, Pius XI, in accordance with papal custom, descended to the cool tomb of his predecessor, in a grotto beneath St. Peter's. There he prayed, stood silent where five years ago he said: "Some day I, too, shall find sweet repose in this place...
Eldest of the seven sons of a Russian immigrant who ran a grocery store on Chicago's West Side, Barney Balaban got into cinema in the days of the nickelodeon. His only sister was the wife of Sam Katz. Balaban and Katz were the first theatre owners to cool their patrons in summer with mechanical refrigeration, an innovation presumably inspired by Barney Balaban's early experience in the cold-storage business. They were the first to cut dull shots from newsreels, the first to go in for super-colossal theatres. Balaban & Katz became the biggest theatre-chain...