Word: coolingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action, the excitements of this play are entirely cerebral though not for that reason ineffective. They lead to no action on the stage but to telling wrinkles in the cool and capable forehead of Eva Le Gallienne, as the lady who is complexedly distressed...
...them succeeded for the third time when they were older than Collett, who was born in 1903 on the day her father, a famous bicycle rider, won his greatest race at the Paris Velodrome. Some of the women at Hot Springs would doubtless have liked to be cool to the daughter, my dear, of a man who used to be a bicycle jockey. Glenna, however, dressed more smartly, had better manners than many a woman whose fathers won their money without the aid of their sporting instincts. When she drives about in her blue Mercer, a police dog named after...
...Fuller of Sacco-Vanzetti fame. His is the only workable Republican machine in the State. He is the nearest the State comes to having a G. O. P. boss. He wanted the nomination for the Vice-Presidency for himself and since he did not get it, he has been cool, in a quiet way, toward the Nominee with whom he wanted...
However, in the gloaming, two whizzing cars can approach very near a crossroad without becoming aware of each other. Fortunately the Marshal's chauffeur is a talented swerver. He broke the force of the whizz-smash by a cool, adroit skid-swerve. When the man at the wheel turned around with blanched face to explain, he received from Marshal Pétain a little nod and a typical, paternal phrase of encouragement, "Bien fait, mon fils." ("Well done...
...Rome, hot, hot, hot. But there are cool arcades in the old stone buildings, there are iced drinks for those who desire. Hot, but pleasantly...