Word: coolerator
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...Insull Monstrosity." Next stop was Portland. Governor Roosevelt's reception was noticeably cooler than in Seattle. His third full-length address was on the power issue. Even the Republican Press conceded that it was factually sound and rang true. He began with a slashing attack upon "certain great private utility corporations" for what he called their "systematic, subtle, deliberate and unprincipled campaign of misinformation, propaganda, lies and falsehood." He charged them, in addition, with overcapitalization, rigging State public service commissions, selfish nearsightedness. He specified...
...insides as clean as his skin. A twist of tweezers and his toenails go clattering to the floor. A bath of fire removes the last shred of hair. A cleaver drops and rends the backbone. Exactly 25 minutes is the interim between living animal and carcass ready for the cooler. Twenty-four hours elapse before it is cut into its component parts?hams, bellies (bacons), loins, shoulders, fat and trimming. The hog's destiny is complete except for the bacon and hams which must be cured (one month to three) and sausage which must hang in the drying rooms four...
...kitchen "is the most modern room in the houses today and the best developed." But stoves must be cooler to work with, and provided with ventilator hoods. It is "entirely conceivable that we will have a calidator along with our refrigerator and that the grocery boy will bring-hot meals every day packed in the hot equivalent of dry ice. Our eggs, canned soups, coffee, and other minor additions we can make on the little electric devices...
...Cooler than the nearby island of Singapore. Johore is just the realm for a Scottish Sultana. Officially the Sultan is "independent," but accepts a thumping yearly British subsidy and does as he is told. In greatest breadth Johore is only 100 mi., in greatest length 165 mi. Mostly covered with green forests, Johore supports an easy-going population of 337,000 who export rubber, import strong drink, including Scotch...
Surely you realize that "but for the grace of God" most of the rest of us (possibly even the august editors of TIME) would be in as embarrassing predicaments. I mean by that: we've been born with cooler natures and brought up with sterner standards, yet who is without...