Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into Jerusalem. was a complex, splendid orchestration of crowds flowing in great whorls toward and about the temple portals, looking ever backward to the approaching figure of the Christus. For the Last Supper, Leonardo's faded painting was lavishly restored in living shapes. On Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant. In the street outside a fire siren wailed. For more than a century and a half the Fassnacht family has dominated the Freiburg Passion Play, passing its privilege to its heirs...
Louis audiences been notoriously sparse and cool. During the 1927 Christmas season, one of the two legitimate theatres in St. Louis harbored Abie's Irish Rose. The other one was empty. But this summer St. Louis feet will tap to the rollicking rhythms of several syncopated operettas, including Rainbow, Funny Face, The Five O'Clock Girl, Sally, Peggy Ann, Tell Me More, Here's Howe. These diversions, all but two of them new to St. Louis, will be staged by the newly-founded Theatre Society of St. Louis, similar to Manhattan's Theatre Guild. From more...
...her?when she is brought to court a murderess, too poor to hire a lawyer, and the judge appoints to defend her a handsome young man, yes, the son himself?and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences do not reflect any more coolly during this picture than they did when the play was a stage hit 19 years ago. Lionel Barrymore capably directed a fine cast which includes Lewis Stone and is distinguished by the superb acting of Ruth...
...pander to the vulgar taste for the simple and obvious, the Vagabond will attend them, and will be seen almost any night, armed with the proper sustenance and a cigar, listening to the music and wishing that the beer were real and that he were sitting under the cool and fragrant shade of the linden trees in--But that is pure nostalgia...
...sufficiently alarming to warrant long stories and topcolumn head lines. There is a significance in his words, however, which though lacking in immediate appeal reflects a fundamental American educational problem. It is the fact that President Lowell was talking to school masters and giving them a little of the cool, hard headed advice which has begun to have its effect in institutions of higher learning...