Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a few years after Colonel Otis acquired the Times his eye had lit on an aggressive, cool-headed circulation hustler named Harry Chandler, a young fellow-Yankee from New Hampshire who had quit Dartmouth to go West for his health. Harry Chandler married the boss's daughter, was soon high in the saddle as the Times's general manager. From this vantage he looked with considerable anxiety on his father-in-law's savage enmity toward union labor...
...place the oysters in the strainer, and you put the strainer in the grease, full depth down to the bottom. Then you fry those oysters in boiling grease until they turn a gold-copper color and rise to the top, and then, you take them out and let them cool just a little bit before you eat them. . . . There is no telling how many lives have been lost by not knowing how to fry oysters, but serving them as an indigestible food. Many times we hear of some man who was supposed to have had an acute attack of indigestion...
...Department of Commerce & Labor. Year later Secretary Cortelyou resigned to become Chairman of the Republican National Committee, manager of President Roosevelt's 1904 campaign. Next he became Postmaster General and, finally, Secretary of the Treasury. In that post he won the confidence and admiration of businessmen by his cool conduct during the panic of 1907. When President Taft took office, the only man ever to hold three Cabinet posts resigned from the Treasury, dropped out of public life...
...Indian Britons, Quetta is a coveted assignment. The great heat of the Indus never reaches its plateau. Even in summer it is cool enough for polo. And in winter its thick clay houses can be kept warm. Surrounded by mountains, Quetta's plain is green with grapes and melons. Under British patronage the town has grown to 60,000, reared some fine Western buildings, drawn trade from southwestern Asia. And the Pathans keep life in Quetta from ever getting really dull. Last week, however, it was not the Pathans but the most disastrous earthquake in twelve years that picked...
...capped her career by marrying a faithful goose and finding him such a swan that she proudly concurred in naming their first-born "Shakespeare"; to aging Aunt Juliette, the Edwardian grande dame, wondering not if flirting had been wrong but if flirting was all; to Nurse Forbes, whose professionally cool head had at last conquered her hot heart; and back to Francesca again, listening for her husband's step on the stairs...