Word: cool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pageant King Frank Barton, ex-Culver, ex-Princeton, ex-president of the Cotton Exchange, rose with some misgivings from his gaudy throne atop a stack of cotton bales. "Frank Barton's got on tights!" the crowd sniggered. "Bet he's cool all right. Now he helpin' the Queen off the boat." Across an excited margin of sloppy river water stepped Queen Octavia Evans. "Ain't she pretty? Niece of Boss Eddie Crump's right hand man. She's supposed to be the Queen of Egypt. That's Gretta Garbo's own dress...
Ever since Japan's famed declaration of her Far Eastern policy the world's eyes have turned to Britain. Would she stand by the Nine Power Treaty? Would she call a halt to Japanese imperialism? Calmly in the cool greenish light of the House Sir John Simon announced last week that she would...
...character Attorney General Cummings made the announcement that it is his policy to present to each citizen the Government's tax claim, and if the full amount of that claim is not paid without any further discussion of the matter a criminal indictment will be demanded. The cool, calculating villainy of this statement has shocked America...
...third floor front. He has left Vatican City only half a dozen times since he gained his freedom by the Lateran Treaties in 1929. Last week it was announced that the Pope would presently leave for a two-month holiday in the Barberine Palace at Castel Gandolfo in the cool Alban Hills, 17 miles from Rome. There he will hold regular audiences, stroll through his vineyards and gardens, admire his cows in their spotless stalls, his chickens in their gayly decorated little coops...
...three weapons won the trophy. Foil. Two of the four U. S. foilsmen are U. S. champions. None of the four Britons is national champion. Nevertheless, outstanding swordsman of the evening was British Major A. Dennis Pearce, 38, a left-handed War aviator, slender, agile and amazingly cool under attack. He won all four of his bouts, personally accounted for half the challengers' victories. He trounced (5-to-4) 26-year-old Hugh Alessandroni, another left-hander who had won the U. S. foil championship week before. Best showing made by the U. S. team was the performance...