Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the abundant Midwest, the sun was bright and warm. Cool winds blew across the prairies. Winter wheat showed emerald in the rolling fields. On thousands of U.S. farms, plows and disc harrows turned back the black earth for next month's corn planting...
Water color is one medium at which Englishmen have generally excelled; Nash's handling of it was traditionally deft and cool. He turned his back on the cities and factories, and painted in the serenity of his own garden and his grey-carpeted studio. Almost no human figures marred the privacy of the world he painted. Aside from his technique, and a faintly romantic air, there was nothing traditional about that world; Nash's water colors and oils alike were halfway abstract. "Nature we need not deny," he once explained, "but art ... should control...
...trouble is, the middle class is too respectable to blow off its tensions by getting mad, beating somebody up, and then being hauled away in the paddy wagon to cool down. Instead, it grits its teeth and swallows its hurts, thus producing duodenal ulcers or harsh treatment of the little woman. All the patients studied were above average in intelligence, which prompted the two doctors to conclude that "the more intelligent persons tend to have difficulties with recovery and adjustment to disability...
...minor role, Mason does little more than sip champagne, dilate his nostrils and murmur, with a leer: "Not quite cool enough but beautifully alive!" At that, he easily takes the romantic play away from the deadpan leading man, Stewart Granger. Phyllis Calvert, as a cabinet member's illegitimate child who eventually achieves her rightful station, displays a fine-boned beauty and something beyond the call of duty in a British cinemactress: a good set of teeth. A merciful Atlantic washed away the picture's only other attraction: the original title, Fanny by Gaslight...
Even the weather was on the Crimson side. It was cool enough to let the first midfield of Dave Abbot, Bob Lange and Paul Withington play well over half the game. In fact, the only thing to worry Coach Maddux was the failure of the defense to click during the first quarter. A time out and the insertion of Don Louria tightened up this sector so that the Hub men scored only one goal in two quarters; by that time, the Crimson had garnered a five-goal bulge...