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Word: cools (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past fortnight Broadway's box office slumped badly. As usual, managers blamed inclement and unseasonable weather. But they also thought up a new wrinkle: Manhattan is light on transients, out-of-towners saving their breath to cool their World's Fair porridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Show Business: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...eyed Pole with an incredible stack of red-gold hair walked onto the stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. He bowed suavely, sat down at the piano and struck the opening chords of Saint-Saens' G Minor Piano Concerto. Leading the attendant orchestra was Manhattan's cool, deliberate Walter Damrosch, then a young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Veteran | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Before the great bronze doors of the Vatican, Swiss Guards in medieval uniforms leaned upon their halberds. It was near dawn, and broad St. Peter's Square lay still and dark in the cool Roman night. But lights still burned in the windows of the Vatican palaces, to the right of the Square and its long Bernini colonnades. One light shone dimly. In the small second-story chamber which it illuminated, on a plain brass bed, a weary old man lay breathing heavily. A black-cowled monk, a silent doctor kept vigil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death of a Pope | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...five game gruellers, most spectacular of all the matches was Kim Kanavarro's smashing victory over Yale's number one star M. Muir 15-11, 15-8, 15-0. In the last game Kanavarro literally smothered his opponent with a barrage of furious service aces. Equally impressive was the cool determination of Captain George B. Blake '39 as he fought to victory after it had eluded him by the closest of margins in the third and fourth games where Harding staged a valiant comeback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Subdues Yale Squash Team In Spectacular Victory in Hemenway | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...world-weary alumni were sipping their cool mint juleps in the Stork Club the other day, trying to forget an earth where every conceivable mystery is suspected of undermining civilization, and is therefore being duly investigated by Dies et al. Suddenly they recognized the presence of a sordid and stark reality. In the conversation of two of the season's buds at the next table, they learned of an all-pervading influence of another color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

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