Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paint-Brush Song" Mr. Derek Beamish (stet) yearns boozily in alternate rymeless and meterless stanzas to be as cool as brook water and as warm as seasand. The seasand is about the hottest part of this effusion and our personal suspicion is that what Mr. Beamish needs is a cold head towel and a turkish bath...
Emaciated, bandy-legged Mahatma Gandhi is Most Holy. He lives on cold water and Indian leeks. Skinny, always nine-tenths naked, and to Occidentals often ridiculous in appearance, he yet evokes from myriads of Hindus the purest devotion, the blindest obedience Just now Gandhi is crusading afresh for a boycott of British goods. He has ulti-matumed that by 1930 India must be as free as Canada (TIME, Jan. 7) and time is getting short...
Everywhere in Paris people mourned le brave Herrick. The ambassador, 74, had insisted five days before on taking full part in the funeral of his friend Marshal Foch (TIME, April i). He stood bareheaded in the cold mist at the Arc de Triomphe and walked in the cortege all the way from Notre Dame to Les Invalides. Two days later he complained of a cold. He went to bed. The next day heart specialists were called in. Parmely Herrick, the Ambassador's son, was called by trans-Atlantic telephone at his home near Cleveland. Just before dusk on Easter Sunday...
Journey's End. The theatre's ways are sometimes stranger than its plots. Some months ago the Kingston Rowing Club, a London suburban organization, found the Thames too cold for paddling and decided to put on a play by way of diversion. The club's personnel is wholly masculine, so something special had to be written for the occasion. The members turned to R. C. Sherriff, one of their number, who had had "experience" in the Surrey Amateur Dramatic Society...
...Junior League leader of the social educators is Miss Marka (Margaret Louise) Truesdale of Manhattan. She has tired of eating meals grown cold by waiting for a tardy guest. And she sympathizes with young businessmen who go to parties and have to be at their offices the morning after. Said she: "Things have gone so far that it's not pleasant. We're not enjoying it. The young men are not enjoying it, and certainly the hostesses aren't enjoying it. Being late came into fashion but it's getting so that everybody comes later...