Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Sundstrom and his deck force, which distinguished itself for cool efficiency, had all passengers in life belts at boat stations along the lee rail. Boats were swung out to deck level and stewards passed up & down handing out fruit, sandwiches, coffee. And then the wait began. For a full hour passengers stood around for the order to go overside into the howling night. But the order did not come. Captain Sundstrom knew that to put out boats was certain death. The passengers began singing The Man on the Flying Trapeze. As soon as it appeared that the Dixie...
...mountains as green and cool as those around Geneva, 120,000 bronzed and singing troops of Fascist Italy are marching today along the road of empire to plant their Roman eagles before the Council of the League of Nations ends its deliberations...
...Flying from the cool mountains around Asmara to the steaming caldron of Massaua, Italy's Red Sea port, your correspondent, piloted by Count Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-law of Premier Benito Mussolini, saw something today of the tremendous preparations for Il Duce's drive into Ethiopia and found a new respect for the men working behind the lines. Il Duce's two flying sons, Victor and Bruno, were at the airport here at dawn today when the correspondent, flying from Khartum, in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, landed. Mussolini's kinsmen were screwing fuses into bombs, with comrades of lesser station...
...Potato Control were bushy-haired Representative Lindsay Carter Warren from the potato-growing northeastern corner of North Carolina and long-faced Senator Josiah William Bailey of the same State. Conservative Senator Bailey, who has opposed inflation, Government spendthriftiness, Huey Long and Father Coughlin, and who has been as cool as a Senator from a Cotton State could be toward the Bankhead Act for compulsory cotton control, frankly gave his reason for proposing Potato Control: "Farmers have continually been driven from cotton, tobacco and peanut production, and have gone into the production of potatoes. . . . We cannot afford to ... drive them...
...cool August night Manhattan's 1935-36 theatrical season last week officially opened with an inexpensive, inept, vulgar and apologetic musical review called Smile at Me (sketches by Edward J. Lambert, music by Gerald Dolin and Lambert: produced by Harold K. Berg). Strewn through an evening of unqualified shoddy were a few good vaudeville turns: singing by light tan Avis Andrews; a sadistic Death dance by Vito and Piri; a sadistic Hawaiian dance by Paul and Poppy Mears...