Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreshadowed by the cool reception given the Junior Prom last year comes the decision of the Class of 1931 to abandon what would appear to be an out worn tradition left over from the days of a smaller Harvard...
When the Roman Emperor Augustus made up his mind to transform a city of brick into a city of marble, he employed Greek architects whose predecessors had designed the temples that still stood, like cool dreams in marble, on the hills of Attica and Sicily. When Francis I of France wanted palaces designed, he summoned Leonardo da Vinci. George Washington, after the fever of a war, set out to build a capital in a wilderness. He employed a Frenchman,* Pierre Charles L'Enfant, to blue-pencil the streets and domes that lobbyists and starlings (see p. 50) would later...
...Frenchmen settled on plantations in the country or built mansions for themselves in the towns. Theirs was a gay life; social affairs were elaborate and highly organized; beautiful women minuetted with white-wigged planters or, drawn by the soft air and the bright moon, flirted on the cool terraces...
Which reminds me of what Washington said to Jefferson when the latter, returning from France, asked why have a Senate, to which Washington replied by asking why he poured his coffee in his saucer. And Jefferson answered, "To cool...
...seems that the Senate now acts more often not to "cool off" legislation, but to inject heat. Possibly the independent thinking is only individual advertising...