Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toothache, as a general rule, is due to one or the other of two things: an inflamed vital nerve, or a dead pressure. In the first case the symptoms would be a "jumping" ache aggravated by drawing in cool air. The cure would be to hold warm water in the mouth to reduce inflammation. The symptoms in the second case (that of a dead nerve) are a sore tooth, sore to bite on, and a steady grumbling pain, not severe. In this case try cold water to contract the gas evolved by putrefaction...
...those happy days are gone with the rest of the happy Harvard football days, and the marching monopoly exists no longer. Last week, to sure, the Band was all alone and performed creditably, starting off well and wisely by doffing their traditional red sweaters and at least appearing cool. Today their marching and playing was to have been put to a more vital test, but competition must wait till next week, after all. Purdue depends upon its gridiron heroes to defend its glory in Cambridge, and its musicians are left behind...
Clad in his marshal's uniform, with the baton of his rank in his left hand, the aged Hindenburg, almost 80, passed through the cheering throng, stopping now and then to say a few words to a former comrade-in-arms. He is grim, cool, calm, yet genial enough on occasion. Germans recall a story about their President that exemplifies his peculiar wit: One of his old friends is alleged to have asked...
Anguished but cool, the Fascist Commander whipped out his revolver, took careful aim, fired. A bullet sped, clipping a fragment out of the stone column behind which Communist Missiroli was hiding. Again the Fascist Commander took a careful bead, pulled the trigger. Communist Missiroli, with a cry of pain and rage, dropped dead...
Soon the superintendent of the Trinity Building discovered Joseph Fodor, workman, dressed in a blue suit, jumping lippety-lip along the parapets that border the roof. Informed that his daring high kicks, his cool pirouettes, his shocking splits excited the office workers, Joseph Fodor stopped and made this statement: "It was great sport dancing on the edge of things. There can be nothing like it unless it is flying. I should like to fly some time. But I shall dance no more, at least not here...