Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward W. Starling, official summer White House inspector, had returned to Washington at last with a description that sounded like the land at the end of a rainbow: high altitude, cool nights, few flies, commodious quarters, beautiful trees, abundant game, and trout-500,000 of them, stocked, bred, liver-fed for 30 years -brook trout, lake trout, steelhead trout -yes, even rainbow trout. President Coolidge announced his decision abruptly; said he would hold the Budget meeting early, on June 11 and leave immediately afterwards for Brule, Wis., for Cedar Island Lodge and cool woods, seclusion, trout. Summer White House Inspector...
...teeming and extraordinary life were shown last week in Brooklyn. Her Bermuda group contained an oil canvas of the strange Deep Sea Squirrel Fish; from California, she had retrieved Kelp at Santa Catalina; her water colors included a portrait of Sea Anemones, bending in a warm current, and a cool atmospheric painting, Color under...
There is another side to the picture, however. There are many students and undoubtedly the large majority who cannot do their best or anywhere near their best, in the presence of such a distraction. At one extreme, of course, are those phlegmatic, cool and collected people who are unaffected by such noises; but they are in the distinct minority. At the other extreme are those who are very greatly affected, particularly when they are keyed up to a high nervous tension for taking examinations that mean everything to them. It seems that this new test places a premium upon temperament...
...died on Good Friday when he was exactly 37 years old, more than for his frescoes and his figure paintings from mythology, his portraits and historical panoramas, is remembered for being the man who made the best pictures of the Virgin Mary and her son. His portraits of her cool and smiling face have been more often copied than any other painter's; notably the Madonna of the Chair (Pitti Gallery, Florence) and the Sistine Madonna (Dresden...
...Harvard is making its way southward, as the swallow flies. Last night New York was filled with the men who by day walk Mount Auburn Street. This morning the gentleman from Indiana and Westmorly, arm in arm with the class baby of 1911, will measure with his eye the cool quadrangles of Princeton, and to him they will be dodecahedron...