Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the Boer War "Winnie" Churchill once encouraged a troop of sadly outnumbered British Tommies by shouting: "Keep cool, men! Think what copy this will make for my paper...
Afternoon?Susan Ertz ($2). A cool study in mature emotions?the remarriage problem...
...Cool Krim. The Riffian Sultan was described by several of his English officers as "the coolest man I ever...
...intelligence from further exposure. But an American widow's frank piquancy is too much for him. He marries her, and when she really learns that clinging-vine love is not for folk walking erect in the afternoon of life, they enter upon a happy ever-after. It is a cool, delightful study in mature emotions from the poised pen of the author of Nina and Madame Claire...
...cool opponent of laissez faire methods, Dr. Keppel concludes with calm insistence that he is not talking high theory; furnishes proven examples of "consecutive study for its own sake" that adults might be more generally engaged in: a course at Bryn Mawr College for working girls; the Williamstown Institute; certain mountain schools in the South; a Danish folk school in Pennsylvania; Commonwealth College (for workers) at Mena, Ark.; a foremen's course in an industrial town: a study group of business executives; reading and business executives; reading and discussion groups at Amherst College; the projected education of enlisted...