Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond is uneasy. He would like to throw back the covers and cool off, but he doesn't quite dare with such an inquisitive visitor making the rounds of his belongings. The winged lancer squares off on the desk calendar and snorts contemptuously at a picture of the Vagabond's best girl. Bored, he revs up his motor and decides to leaves. He mistakes the mirror for a window and is quite some shaken up by the minor crackup which ensues. Then, having been aroused, he changes instantly from a disturbance into a menace. He runs out his stinger...
...tall, weather-beaten Pennsylvanian, Cover has none of the dramatic fatalism of a movie test pilot. Cool and reliable, he was once an army flying instructor. When he was testing the DCi, the port engine almost died when the plane was only 50 ft. up. He calmly wheeled for a landing, missing a tree by feet. As the engine picked up he decided not to land, flew on for a successful test with the engine sputtering...
...about her and it takes him a little while to remember her name. But after that, it all comes easy as he waltzes her around and around regardless of the music and other people. How could he have forgotten her? After a while the pair swing out into the cool air, and he feels so refreshed and gay that he cannot help doing hand-springs on the lawn. They drift out into the darkness and look down the valley lighted only in a small village far off. Soon the music stops, and the noise of voices dies away...
...Jones's hearers took this lambasting in stony silence. The next night at the final convention dinner in the Hotel Willard, their reaction to 68 honor guests was equally frank. Cabinet members Frances Perkins and Henry Wallace got a cool reception; Lammot du Pont drew thunderous applause; ultra-conservative Justice James Clark McReynolds brought down the house...
Less experienced than the cool Eli eight, the Hainesmen were unable to settle and forced to a lower beat. With a half-mile to go, rowing smoothly at a high beat combined with efficient inboard work, stroke Bailey's boat nipped the leads of Princeton and Tech and closed the gap on the Elis. Yale was already over by two-thirds of a length, however, clocking...