Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suffered only the normal confinement prescribed for dangerous criminals by Italian custom, were beamed upon by dark-eyed and fashionably gowned Italian Signoras, of whom there were dozens in the court. Other admiring females had presented them with especially woven Fascist black shirts. Their carefully knotted black ties and cool indifferent bearing suggested that no undue alarm surged in the breasts of these alleged murderers of Giacomo Matteotti, millionaire, Socialist, irreconcilable foe of Benito Mussolini (TIME, June...
...Garrett's Ouroboros has the merits of a central idea, an impersonal viewpoint, a cool wit. He traces the growth of machinery from Adam's pastoral day to our pasteurized one, when it has become an essential of our existence, an "extension" of human nature with which humanity will have to harmonize itself or starve...
...Philadelphia draft-dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll continued to cool his heels in the jail at Mosbach, Germany, last week (TIME...
...will apply rigorously, methodically, obstinately, with a system of cool tenacity which is typical of Facismo, all our laws to the Alto Adige. I refer both to the laws this Chamber has voted and to those it will vote in the future. We will render the Alto Adige Italian because it is Italian, both historically and geographically. The present boundary at the Brenner Pass is a frontier traced by the infallible hand...
...qualities that have won for the Crimson (Harvard University undergraduate daily) high rank among college newspapers, urbanity has not been least. Has the faculty displeased the students? The Crimson editors have not gnashed their strong young teeth and given vent to puerile polemic. Cool satire is the Crimson's mode. Have undergraduates been boorish? The Crimson chastened them with mockery...