Word: coolingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Straub of Munich, with good knowledge of cool München Brau, remarked: "Alcohol is the oldest pleasure poison known to man. . . . It is the taking of wrong amounts of alcohol by those whose systems are not properly adjusted which has caused all the trouble with drink since Noah...
...will revive his one and only opera, Fidelio, orchestras will feature his symphonies above all others. Thus everywhere musicians are scouring for relics of Beethoven. Last week in Europe a discovery was made, not an unfinished symphony to be treated and pieced together, nor a scrap of a sonata, cool, clear, deathless, but a part of a diary on an old memorandum sheet scratched by Beethoven, the querulous, untidy, unreasonable old man. It has to do with his servant problems...
...countrymen rests in his prowess, for he opposes a man from another nation. Now the fashion of fighting of these two champions differs like their races. The stranger, who comes of a people hot, delicate and windy, has schooled his natural haste into precision. His eye is cool; his strokes are like insults uttered in a careful voice. But the man of legend is a Jack of a different silk. Bleak in person and in countenance, sprung of a thin and righteous line of thee-and-thouers, he has sharpened caution into vehemence: every bravery of his stride...
...brothers" will get Justice, find Pride. Perhaps he was disillusioned last week on looking into the three new supplementary volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, wherein able Arthur B. Darling, one of the rising young assistant professors in history at Yale, disposes of the modern Ku Klux Klan in a cool, curt sketch...
...thousands there in the flesh stamped their approval, hurled their straw mats into the air, restrained themselves patiently to hear yet another speech by Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten. The thousands far away, in stuffy sitting-rooms, carpet-slippered, collarless, on cottage porches lit by a cool, waning moon, heard the last tremendous strains of the overture, whisked their dials around to another station. The Manhattan outdoor concert season had ended...