Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joshua VI, 20). Louis Armstrong, whom Hugues Panassie, the author of "Le Jazz Hot", considers "not only a genius in his own art, but one of the most extraordinary creative geniuses that all music has over known", lay on the cot of Metropolitan Theatre star dressing room trying to cool down from the heat he had delivered in the stage show of the previous hour...
...widely heralded Princeton zone defense was completely shattered by the cool and accurate passing of the Harvard team, and when the Tiger five succeeded in running the ball down the court, their attack was checked with such vigour as to frequently leave several players sprawling on the floor. Struck and McGowan were especially effective in breaking up plays right under the basket...
...asked the Commission of Fine Arts for permission to replace Mrs. Roosevelt's with a red damask set costing $4,000. Other proposed changes: a new piano to replace the gold piano in the East Room (its tone is failing); $10,000 worth of air conditioning equipment to cool individual rooms in the White House (complete air conditioning would cost some...
...turned soldier when his king & country called, wrote Britain's first War best-seller (The First Hundred Thousand), has written 22 books, all of them displaying a school- masterly healthy mind. His latest, a cheery tale of big doings at an English boys' school, is served up cool but crisp, with a slight sogginess inside, like British toast. Housemaster should please the large U. S. audience of Anglophiles. Worst thing anyone could say about the author and its creatures is that they are all good chaps...
...this troubled triangle, but the half-dozen high-spots sprinkled through the picture, usually with excellent accompanying melodies by Irving Berlin. Samples: Dick Powell hunting for The Girl on the Police Gazette, Madeleine Carroll and Dick Powell chivying a bean-wagon proprietor (Billy Gilbert), Alice Faye's deliciously cool contralto singing This Year's Kisses. Best moments of all, however, are contributed by the insane Ritz Brothers, who put on three zany acts: 1) The Arctic Explorers; 2) The Russian Band; and 3) The Lonely Professor, to the tune of He Ain't Got Rhythm...