Word: cool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambassadors Phillips and Suvich are both of the polished and professional type, cool to all but their closest friends. Both are considered by tailors to be utterly faultless in their attire. By competent if not brilliant work, both had plodded successfully along the road of "career men." For Signore Suvich, however, the appointment was a negative promotion. For Mr. Phillips it was a positive professional advancement...
...health had anything to do with it. Last week, however, the Vatican household felt vastly relieved when at 6:30 o'clock one evening three automobiles rolled away bearing the 79-year-old Pontiff and a small retinue to Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer snuggery in the cool Alban Hills. Leaving the muggy Vatican a month earlier than usual, Pius XI planned to remain away three months, longest vacation yet scheduled...
...American colleagues. The War, in a great degree, discovered Europe to American newspapers as a field for news. . . . The American newspaper men swarmed all over the still-ravaged territories of the European belligerents. . . . They came with their bright and cynical eyes, their calm, unworried faces, their tireless industry, their cool courage, their infinite capacity for drinks, jesting, poker and work, their insatiable curiosity, their generosity to a comrade, American or European, their professional pride, their calm assumption of equality with any king, president, statesman or newspaper reporter under...
Accustomed to seeing their idols shattered, prizefight reporters concealed their amazement by enthusiasm. They likened Louis, a cool young blackamoor who did his work with a commendable economy of motion, to a cobra, a leopard, a panther. He received innumerable complimentary and alliterated nicknames, and a match with noisy and preposterous Max Baer. Baer, like Camera, was slow, overgrown and easy to hit. Louis dealt with him the same way, except that this time the knock-out arrived in the fourth round. Louis ceased to be an animal. He became a "superman...
...Schmeling is managing to keep reasonably cool, calm and collected as the hour of his doom approaches. . . ."-Jack Miley...