Word: chilling
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...spoke Woodrow Wilson on a fresh, sunny winter day 27 years ago, in his first inaugural address. Among his many listeners was Franklin Roosevelt, 31 years old, light-haired, lean, tall, a bit dandified, bundled "in a greatcoat against the chill...
...strangest journeys in U. S. history neared its finish. Through 30 States, for 17,300 miles, for seven long weeks, the Willkie train had rolled. Endlessly the U. S. flowed past. Now the mountains had gone by, the people standing, still and lonely-looking, in the thin, chill air; the prairies had fled by the windows, people waving from the little houses on the flat plains. Through the fruitlands of California, north through the forests to Portland, Seattle, east through the mountains of Montana. Oil lands, cattle lands, deserts and mountains...
...Monday night the gloom over Tremont Street should be lifting. Flora Robson's "Ladies In Retirement" is the best murder-mystery to chill Broadway in years. And Joe E. Brown is coming to town in "Elmer the Great," which created a panic in summer theatre. What with Ruth Gordon's "Here Today" playing away to a cheering house at the Copley, you might just as well forget about the mistakes of the past week...
...morning was fresh, cold and clear. At the Poughkeepsie railroad station, a few loafers, hands in pockets, gazed blankly at the big open touring car (license District of Columbia 101), its tan top up against the chill. The country's first citizen, bundled in a grey topcoat, sat alone in the car. Franklin Roosevelt smoked a cigaret and waited, inhaling great puffs, waving the cigaret sweepingly after each draw...
...many years the last great private U. S. art collection has hung on the walls of Lynnewood Hall, a chill, pedimented mansion in Elkins Park, Philadelphia suburb. The collection was begun by Peter Arrell Brown Widener, onetime butcher's boy, who made his pile in Civil War meat contracts and later streetcar franchises. His second and only surviving son, Joseph Early Widener, winnowed P. A. B.'s 700 pictures, made many a swap, bought only the best, until 100 canvases, all good and many masterpieces, glowed like jewels in Lynnewood Hall. The Widener collection was valued as high...