Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as pack horses or native bearers arrive with the expedition at the hunting grounds, the colonel strolls out with his shotgun. As each bird bites the dust, he wraps it carefully in many folds of "the best butter muslin." When the bird's body begins to cool, the lice desert it for the muslin. Then the colonel and Theresa unwrap the muslin and shelter the displaced lice in labeled vials of alcohol...
...blocky, bubbly ex-Tyrolean, Bemelmans has turned out a score of illustrated books, has won a snug niche in current popular art. His firmly funny India ink lines are backed by broad, patternmaking blobs of color that are cool as summer showers. He is like Raoul Dufy, James Thurber and Peter Arno tossed into salad and marinated in strong dark beer...
...cool year and nine months later...
Tall, rugged (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) Johnny Meyer is no wild-blue-yonder flyboy. A married man and a Dartmouth graduate (specialties: geopolitics, lacrosse, swimming), he is of the new Air Force breed: a cool, workaday airman who talks in terms of "considered audacity" and is proud that in his 2,500 hours of flying he has never washed out or damaged a ship...
...circus impresario's wife gets him his strangest task. Thanks to her, he signs on as a lion tamer, finds that his job is to lie down with a beefsteak on his chest and let a lion eat the steak. A dress rehearsal and one performance cool his ardor for the impresario's wife. It turns out that the impresario uses her as a regular decoy to line up human steak platters. Between catastrophes, H. Hatterr asks himself the perennial questions of philosophy, some piffling, some reaching toward profundity: "Why is an evening paper published in the afternoon...