Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be dramatically poignant. Although it is not the fashion to be aroused or wistful, surely the scene where Caine Woodruff, the publisher's wife finds out that she is in the same room with the woman who has enticed her husband, and the parting scenes are too artificially cool...
Acting honors of Girls in Uniform go to Florence Williams (Manuela), a young woman of sparse theatrical experience, discovered in R. H. Macy's department store. Cool, clean Rose Hobart (last seen in I Loved You Wednesday) as the beloved teacher tries desperately to apply astringent to a situation which often comes uncomfortably and needlessly close to abnormality...
...visionary magician, perched on a high stool whose legs have grown longer and longer as the business has expanded, gazing into the future with the crystal ball of pure scientific theory. Forgiven and forgotten is his classic blunder of ten years ago, the air-cooled Chevrolet motor which cost GM 31 cool millions. Nowadays most improvements in cars are originated by independent inventors, developed by partsmakers. Mr. Kettering and his research staff have carried GM into rich fields beyond the automobile business. He was largely responsible for GM's frigidaire. If he gets his way. the next...
...while his ambition was burning hottest, he kept his head cool and clear enough to make no rash mistakes. He listened carefully to the astute Colonels Howe & House. He trusted hustling Jim Farley to line up the important West and Midwest. He appealed to and for the Forgotten Man without going so far off the deep end of demagoguery that he could not regain his balance among potent conservatives...
...Casting several metals in one mold was a matter of memorizing the exact melting points of the various special alloys he employed. There was no welding. To cast a girl with a golden arm and a silver dress, for example, the arm would be cast first. When cool the hot silver alloy would be sucked into the same mold. Heat of the silver would fuse the arm to the body...