Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason Mr. Hill might be willing to pay a cool $35,000,000 to commute his lease is that he can now borrow from the banks at ridiculously low rates. Even if he did not choose to use any of the $32,000,000 cash he had on hand at the start of last year, interest charges on the whole sum would probably amount to less than $1,500,000, leaving him a round $1,000,000 to the good each year...
...Veil (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Dr. Walter Fane (Herbert Marshall) goes to the door of his wife's bedroom in Hongkong, he finds it locked. On the hall table lies a polo helmet. From these two facts he knows that his Katrin (Greta Garbo) is sinning with a cool young legation attaché (George Brent). At dinner that night, Dr. Fane presents Katrin with a choice: she will leave with him for Mei-tan-fu, where cholera is epidemic, or she will marry the attach...
...reproducing actual conditions beneath a setting bird. That idea occurred to N. A. Meshcheryakov of Moscow's Zoological Park. Eggs beneath a setting mother are several degrees warmer on top than at the bottom. Every time the bird leaves the nest for food or exercise the eggs cool off a little...
...Hertz lost his Symphony job in 1930 when fashionable gentiles had their own ideas about the San Francisco orchestra. But Hertz liked the cool, moist San Francisco climate, liked his San Francisco home overlooking the Pacific and in San Francisco he remained. San Franciscans generally came to realize that he was as fine a German conductor as they had ever known...
...Escorial he pondered the English novel; at Ubeda a dusty image of Christ in purple silk pants struck a chill into his warm feeling that Spain was more nearly in the right path than her more progressive neighbors. At Jerez de la Frontera he sipped sherry in cool warehouses, thought of Falstaff. whose favorite tipple was sherris sack. A tavern-keeper in Cadiz seemed to Traveler Tomlinson to speak for the nation when he said, with a shrug: "That revolution was nothing. It was not bloody. It was only like an orange, which falls when it is very ripe...