Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Nations at last had a High Command. It was not in London, where most U.S. citizens would have guessed it would be. It was in a cool white building put up for the United States Public Health Service in Washington, across Constitution Avenue from the Munitions and Navy Buildings. By this week the headquarters of the "Combined Chiefs of Staff had become the greatest complex of military secrets in the Allied world...
...meant to Conrad Helfrich. For, if the Japs were coming to the Indies, they were coming to his home. They were coming to Semarang, the town on the Java coast where his father practiced medicine and where he was born 55 years ago. They were coming to the cool, ugly house in Batavia where he lived with his wife, his twin sons, his two daughters. The Japs were coming to the quiet inland kampongs, where Conrad Helfrich had many a trusting native friend, where many good brown sailors and soldiers had grown up for service in his ships...
...years Dermatologist Thomas W. Ross of Portland, Ore. has used silk stockings as emergency bandages to hold dressings in place. They were cool, comfortable, easy to apply and clean. A month ago he suggested that the women of the U.S. save their silk stockings for first-aid work instead of throwing them away when they got runs...
This interpretation was received with cool silence in the Justice Department, which has been feuding quietly with Treasury over alien property. Justice's representative on the frozen funds committee is Leo Crowley; and the President has begged Crowley to take over the whole job (though he never got around to giving him an executive order). White-haired Bache lor Crowley is a busy man: he is not only Chairman of FDIC, but of huge Standard Gas & Electric, and a director or officer of eight or ten other firms. Nonetheless, he told the President he would be Alien Property Custodian...
Although Roxie Hart makes a hilarious burlesque of Chicago's Keep-Cool-With-Coolidge, Keep-Cockeyed-With-Capone era, it is often too overdone for superior farce. Mouthpiece Menjou and Newsman Overman make mincemeat of their fat roles; America's own Ginger Rogers is attractive but unbelievable in hers. The star plays second fiddle...