Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, where he arrived with a representative of the New York advertising firm of Arthur Kudner, Inc., thus giving the Windsor tour an unfortunate commercial air, Efficiency Expert Bedaux's reception at the State Department was cool. Even cooler was his reception by a group of reporters invited to cocktails at the Mayflower Hotel, which hoped to accommodate Mr. Bedaux's friends when they arrived. Efficiency Expert Bedaux failed to improve matters when, asked whether he was paying for the Windsor tour, he gave a noncommittal answer indicating that...
...occupied with the 90,000-word story of his life which he is laboriously turning out in Amharic. The 14-year-old Duke of Harrar has been enrolled at King's College, Taunton, and shy, reticent, 17-year-old Princess Sehai, who professes a liking for Shakespeare and "cool English poetry," has deserted Bath for a nurses' training course at London's Children's Hospital...
Mogul emperors four centuries ago in India hung wetted grass mats over the doors and windows on the windward side of their palaces. A slight breeze might then cool their throne rooms as much as 20°. In 1901, somewhat the same idea occurred to a young Buffalo engineer named Willis Carrier, now the 60-year-old chairman of Carrier Corp., only major U. S. company devoting itself exclusively to air conditioning. The rather obvious idea of the Mogul emperors has grown into an industry that is sometimes compared to aviation in its infancy, highly technological and full of financial...
Riled by Broadway's lukewarm-to-cool appreciation of his three last plays (We, the People, Judgment Day, Between Two Worlds), testy, red-headed Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein) three years ago made a public face at all dramatic critics and declared he was "disenchanted" with Broadway for good. So far he has kept his word...
...police and for Nihilists, reported on each to the other and had to maintain card files to keep his machinations straight); represents the fun-loving, light-witted Alfonso XIII of Spain (chiefly notable during his reign for his gambols on the Riviera, his gambling at Deauville) as a monarch "cool, determined . . . dauntless," generally much misunderstood...