Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hottest locust battle of the week was that fought on the grand old Egyptian front by thousands of sweating natives directed by a mere handful of cool, efficient Englishmen, commanded by the British Inspector General of the Egyptian Army, famed "Spinks Pasha," Maj. General Sir Charlton Watson Spinks...
...Bloody Sholapur." From his cool summer capital at Mahabaleshwar, H. E. Maj.General Sir Frederick Sykes. Governor of Bombay Presidency, directed by telegraph the Royal Ulstermen's occupation of Sholapur, their tearing down of the Indian flag wherever flown, their hoisting of the Union Jack. Stay at home subjects of George V know that, given an occasional whiskey soda and a tough platoon or two, "Sir Freddy" Sykes fears his own Jehovah but no heathen God. man or devil, commands boundless loyalty from the British tommies in that glamorous, sternly romantic force "His Majesty's army in India...
...MacDonald resorted to satisfy his curiosity were justified by the grave Indian crisis. When three newspapers (London Daily Telegraph, London Daily Chronicle, Manchester Daily Dispatch) let out in advance the state secret that the MacDonald Government had decided to arrest St. Gandhi in India (TIME, May 12) even the cool Scot's nerves jumped...
Meanwhile the viceregal court moved from New Delhi, the expensively erected capital of British India, to salubrious Simla, the summer capital in the cool eastern Himalayas. There potent, tremendously tall Baron Irwin (the Viceroy is fully two heads taller than scrawny little St. Gandhi) received a letter in which his prisoner accused him of employing British troops in such a way as to provoke the violence which seethed last week in India...
...only too easy to picture the effect of Dartmouth's attempt to cool off. When New Haven tailors found out they could sell more cloth if they cut their customer's trousers like a sailor's every office boy in New York followed suit. At Dartmouth the college newspaper thought it necessary to urge football men to set the precedent for shorts in order that the more timid would follow. This counsel was unnecessary, the habit will doubtless spread across the country over night. Boys in the big city to the south who have been running around all winter without...