Word: coolingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cuban Ambassador prepared to sail for Havana, where there is almost always a cool breeze. At the Brazilian Embassy there was a great packing of trunks and boxes for a move to the Adirondacks...
Then, to clinch his hope, he summoned to the White House seven congressional leaders for an extraordinary conference. In the cool of the evening and for the space of an hour President Hoover told them what they must do to unsnarl the legislative tangle at the Capitol. Leader Watson informed the President the Senate would not back down on its debenture plan until the House had voted openly against it. Speaker Longworth said the House did not want to vote openly on the debenture plan. Then the President spoke: "The House must vote"?and vote...
...talking back to a white man, jilting white girls, not jilting them, attempting court action against white men, forgetting to use "sir," seeming prosperous, attempting to enter a car where white men were sitting, attempting to vote or run for office, mistaken identity, standing in the way of a cool breeze...
...their half of the frame the Blue warriors took revenge by pounding out four markers and sending Whitmore to the cool showers. He was succeeded by Ketchum who struggled along until the seventh when he gave way to a pinch hitter. In this frame seven more tallies rounded out the Blue total and brought first baseman Prior to the mound. He finished the game in good fashion...
...grandstands were hot. The 2½-mile brick speedway was baking. The audience of 160,000 sweltered. But around and around the track droned 33 little automobiles, each driven by a man cool of nerve and body, competitor in the annual 500-mile Memorial Day motor race at Indianapolis-longest, most racking of U. S. motor contests...