Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rough stuff, no noise, no liquor parties. Backslapping, in which Olvany does not indulge, actively or passively, is frowned upon. New York's Jimmie Walker, on the wagon, grins at the restless Tigers and quotes the price of corn whiskey.* Boss Olvany lifts his long eyelashes, advises calisthenics, cold showers...
...Hoover is the first business man in a country of the biggest business men in the world. Perhaps he may never move crowds with his eloquence nor the world with his declarations in fourteen points. But it is certain that, with him as President, America will never suffer cold, nor hunger, nor privation...
...each end, bulbous with electric eyes. These were the stars and planets; each with its own motor to send it through any. desired orbit. Upon the huge domed ceiling, 75 feet across, the professor could project the sky as it looked to three shepherds of Judea on a certain cold night in December, or as it will look to the man in the street on any night in the year...
...about: While a million radios were still being tuned in to catch the proceedings: while campaign managers were still figuring with frantic pencils the delegates claimed and the delegates secured: even before the chairman stood upon the platform and delivered the quadrennial inveighment against smoking, the issue was settled. Cold water, floods of it poured over the fireworks, and the melancholy farmers could not even rouse a dull "siss!" for all their trying. The anti-Hoover scandal sheets were futile and with no goal before them, they can only fill wastebaskets or memory books...
Customarily the manner of the Right Honorable Neville Chamberlain is cold and his delivery precise, but none could doubt his intense emotion when he cried: "It is a very terrible thing to think that today out of every 250 mothers, one dies in childbirth, and that this state of things has persisted for the last 20 years. . . . Meanwhile the general death rate has decreased from 14 per 1,000 to 12.3 and the infant mortality rate has dropped from 89 to 70 per 1,000. . . . Clearly the time has come when a great new effort ought to be made [Cries...