Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wanger). "You wouldn't want a star to endure the heat of the lights while they set the cameras and microphones, would you? So they dig up a gal ... to stand in for the star while all this torture goes on. . . . When everything's set the star, cool and immaculate, puts her dainty little feet in the chalkmarks. The standin, worn and wilted, fades out of the picture...
...really am better. Last night seems very far off. Sometime I will have to think about it--objectively. God, I'm hungry! Rest, sleep--healing, wonderful, the Fountain of Youth, a sulphur bath. (My father takes sulphur baths.) Like a mountain stream: cool, trebling, ceaselessly flowing. What is it? Who knows what it is? It alone has the same value for eternity; it alone is worthwhile. Boy, smell that bacon! I'll be down there in a jiffy...
...Cool on the banks of piney Lake Mendota rests the quiet city of Madison, centre of a rich dairy and farming area, home of Wisconsin's State capitol and State university. Last week, though no petroleum has ever been found there, Madison became also the temporary capital of the U. S. oil industry. In the biggest trust-busting case since the famed dissolution of Standard Oil, the Federal Government last week brought to trial in Madison 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, three oil trade journals and 57 ranking oilmen.* Under the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...pert, imaginative magnifico who was born in Ripon, Wis. and cleaned up a cool million in Chicago's Marshall Field & Co., was Harry Gordon Self ridge, 51, when in 1909 he started Self ridge & Co. in London. By impudent American-style promotion it soon became most talked about, one of the most successful of London's department stores, now has annual sales of some $75,000,000. Among the earliest of Harry Selfridge's stunts was an advertisement in the form of an institutional editorial, run daily in the London Times over the by-line "Callisthenes...
Hawk Mountain is part of Pennsylvania's Kittatinny Ridge, an ancient flyway for migrating hawks. Cool fall winds striking the 1,000 ft. escarpment on the west side of the ridge create strong upward air currents on which the big birds can glide at 50 or 60 mi. an hour without moving their lazy wings. Hawk Mountain is the flyway's narrowest point, where the flights of birds become concentrated. On an especially good day, visitors may see 3,000 assorted hawks fly over...