Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...volume to the presses, purge followed purge. Radek was imprisoned, Bukharin shot, and one by one the names on Volume One's title page disappeared in Stalin's great liquidation. By 1938, when the purge was hottest and Volume 37 appeared, Shmidt alone was left; he kept cool and smiling in the Arctic...
...salt pork and finely ground ham. Finally she added the turkey meat, cut from the bones, plus turnips, carrots and lots of onions. Tied in a cloth, the galantine was put in water and bay leaves to cook slowly for six hours. After that, she set it out to cool, then garnished it with red gelatine...
...first Madonnas perfectly mirrored the Byzantine ideal; he gave the Virgin smoothly arched brows, like two bows, and a delicately pursed mouth, in the accepted tradition, and made her cool and peaceful as a cloud. And she never changed, essentially, in all his later paintings of her; she only became more real, more human and more alive each time. Before he died, Bellini's faith and art had combined to create Madonnas like the one here reproduced, which were credibly like the Virgin the Wise Men found at Bethlehem: a living woman, and the Mother of God. The compassion...
...fewer will want to miss those of a Fairbanks find: a 23-year-old, Tahiti-born "Tyrolean blonde" named Paule Croset. Her performance (as a Dutch farm girl) is as clear as a brook, and audiences may well object that the camera does not linger longer on her cool, inviting beauty...
With her devoted husband, Henry Maxwell Andrews, an investment banker with a cool, scholarly, finely whetted mind, she lives at Ibstone House, in the county of Buckinghamshire, 36 miles from London. There she prefers to be known as Mrs. Andrews. Ibstone is an 18th Century manor house whose back windows command one of the noblest vistas in southern England-broad fields falling away to a deep valley in the Chiltern Hills. Around the house lies the 85-acre farm, where the Andrewses raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, hogs, and pasture their purebred Jersey herd. Near the house is an immaculate modern...