Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their child boss is a cool, foresighted "premier," whose methodical plans for organized robbery are constantly upset by romantic little upstarts who think it is heroic to disregard orders and rules, to thieve when & where they will. At the premier's elbow is a sage elder statesman (aged 12) who acts as moderator between the boss and the upstarts. The rest of the camp is composed of a passive majority, a child-mother, and a deaf mute...
These days, there are two ways of describing a novel laid in India: as the best thing of its sort since Forster's Passage to India-or not as good as Forster. This one is not as good. But it is a cool and intelligent book in its own right. The Harper Prize Novel, it is the work of Yugoslavian-born Joseph Hitrec, 36, who went to India for a vacation in 1933, stayed 14 years...
...Union his reception was cool. But soon his classes were among the most crowded in the seminary. He moved from class to class surrounded by disputatious students, who soon called him "Reinie." In 1939, Niebuhr became the fifth American* to be invited to deliver the Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University. Niebuhr drew the biggest crowds in Gifford history, later published the lectures as The Nature and Destiny...
...should change its policy and assign extra copies of vital books to the Houses where they will be in constant use, instead of keeping the whole horde at Boylston on the Union, where it is subject mostly to afternoon and evening rushes. Besides, that long invigorating walk through the cool and healthful night air is highly over-rated...
Excerpts from a letter from the daughter of Thomas Masaryk, first president of Czechoslovakia, were read at the meeting. The letter compared Czech acceptance of the Communist government to "parched lips trembling at an imaginary well, cool under the palms...