Word: coolingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become dry moralizing were it not, as has been said, for the author's graceful sly humor and intense humanity. He is smiling all the time--a very kindly smile. And yet that same smile that prevents him from sermonizing prevents him equally well from annihilating. He is cool and he is pleasant. Too cool and too pleasant to push his arguments to their farthest limits. His smile of understanding never changes into the frown of annoyance, with the result that the reader is at times disappointed in not seeing the adversary completely disposed of. It would be interesting...
...played the opening section, marked ' grave/ with a cool, velvety perfection of touch that fell very gently and softly...
...stories have hitherto been unpublished in book form, and eight have never appeared in print. The motive of most of these stories is courage, the courage to want something supremely and to pay the price for it, the courage to make quick decisions and to keep a cool head against long odds...
...deliberation. All present appeared to be surprised at the speedy verdict except Ward himself, who preserved his appearance of complete confidence till the very end. Though his personal attorney broke down and the eyes of his trial counsel, Judge Mills, filled with tears on hearing the verdict, Ward remained cool and calm, if not cynical. One of the jurymen stated after the trial that it was Ward's absolute appearance of confidence and of " sheer decency" that led the jury to determine he could not have killed Sailor Peters in cold blood...
Kaltenbach was expected to reach the sixth round. Morgan lost the first set to him but by cool playing took the second two without going into extra games...