Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much as a plagiarism of his play (The Swan, reviewed in TIME, Nov. 5, 1923). For in the play there was no fly, no impolite story, no charming proletarian, and in the end requirements of realism were so much observed, that the princess parted from the tutor with a cool and formal bow, submitting gracefully to a marriage of convenience. The Swan sang its song before it left the stage for the screen...
Slowly the crowds trickle towards the nations capital, greeted by an unexpected termination of the warm spell that makes it very easy to "Keep Cool With Coolidge." The Washington shops have retaliated for the program of "simplicity" and "economy" by breaking precedent to the extent of keeping open on Inauguration Day Colonel Coolidge has decided that there are enough bibles in Washington to make it unnecessary to bring one from Vermont, Governor Pinchot will ride in the procession with a sombrero from Texas, Governor Nellie Ross will be received with all due acclamation, as the first lady governor...
Charles G. Dawes announced his intention of retiring to his cool retreat at Evanston, Chicago suburb, during the summer recess of the Senate. Clem L. Shaver, chairman of the Democratic National Committee during its disastrous fall campaign, announced that he had raised $250,000 of the amount necessary to wipe out the campaign deficit of $260,000 which the Democrats had incurred; also that he did not believe that John W. Davis would be a candidate for the next Democratic nomination...
...been President for 18 months and promises to be for 48 months more. Yet the public still knows him only by his masks-witness his nicknames: "Calvin the Cool," "Cautious Cal," "Calvin the Silent," "Economy Cal"-and it is said that in London he is known as "Courageous Cal," in Paris as "Le Capitaine...
...Army man strongly advocating the service union which the Navy dreads; Godfrey Cabot, President of the National Aeronautic Association, a Bostonian of the great Cabot clan, so far interested in New York City as to advocate Governor's Island as a landing field, but in a cool detached manner; R. E. M. Cowie, President of the American Railway Express, a canny, able old Scotchman, describing how the pushcart gave way to the horse-cart, the horse-cart to the express train, and predicting that the Express company will give unlimited business to the first responsible air transport company; Grover...