Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soot and the Volstead Act to explain the lack of color and noise, of bonfires, fireworks, and ringing campaign cries like "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too." The figure which the faithful Vermont delegation made singing in overcoats what was intended to be a warm and rousing song, "Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge", largely explains the nature of the convention...
This was the equipment with which he won the anthracite strike of 1902, the strike into which President Roosevelt injected his forceful personality. At one meeting of railway presidents and miners' officials called by Roosevelt, everyone gave way to superheated anger. Only Mitchell, the storm centre, remained cool. Roosevelt was reported to have said afterwards: "There was only one man in the room who behaved like a gentleman, and that...
...appearance of sheer boredom, while Miss Leitch, nervous before the start, gritted her teeth, stuck out her chin, and played with obvious fire and determination." Such was the cabled description of the fifth round of the British women's open golf championship at Portrush, Ireland. Joyce Wethered, "cool and collected," took the match from her older opponent by 6 up and 4 to play. Later she took the final round (7 & 6) from Mrs. F. Cautley "who was bothered by rain...
...Commencement Day Committee is taking no chances on stirring up another such witches brew as the one which has just been allowed to cool. Seasonably forewarned by the effects of Dr. Butler's statements and the fiery denunciations of his opponents, they have wisely chosen to stifle any thoughts of illicit festivity, which might be taking shape in the minds of irresponsible graduates...
...solemn, strong, sober; as a leader he is cool, discreet, able. In politics he is a staunch Unionist, and an unbending Imperialist, has "no foolish fastidiousness about democratic principles." As an orator he is a failure, but as a man of action he is "a national asset." Two un-Irish features stand out in his physiognomy and character; he has an egg-shaped head with eyes deep set and far apart; he is "an Irishman without a sense of humor...