Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lounging in his seat, Sir John Simon remained refrigerator-cool. With no intention of replying to M. Barthou's personal remarks, he soothed...
Nevertheless Sir John Simon packed up and went back to London. Next to leave Geneva was Belgium's chief delegate. Foreign Minister Paul Hymans. Worried "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, President of the Conference, adjourned it for a few days to let tempers cool...
...which it was directed by J. Walter Ruben and acted by an expert cast. Clive Brook is almost as funny while manipulating his guests into embarrassing situations as Reginald Owen while uttering sleepy roars of indignation at finding himself in a predicament he cannot understand. Diana Wynyard's cool and enigmatic smile gives an accent of high comedy to sequences which might otherwise have been childish. Good shot: Leonard, when he has drained a tumbler of Mr. Latimers whiskey, explaining that he has done so "under protest...
Trudging home last week through a cool birch forest, peasants of the Polish town of Ciechanow heard for the eighth time a horrible sound-the agonized scream of a little girl. Seven times in the past three weeks little girls, all between 3 and 6, had been found in meadows and clumps of forest stabbed in the stomach and bleeding badly. A horrid boy, they said, who grunted like an animal had attacked them with a knife, sucked their blood and disappeared. Two of the little girls bled to death before they could be hospitalized...
...cool midnight last week patrols trotted out of their barracks in Riga to take up posts along the empty streets of the 700-year-old city. Telephones rang in army and police posts all through Latvia, and in dozens of smaller towns and villages other patrols went out into the night. Nothing happened, because all good Letts stayed snug in their beds. Next morning they woke to martial law, machine guns posted round the headquarters of the Socialist party, a censored Press and a dictatorship ruling the country...