Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither Prime Minister Baldwin nor Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain believes in taking either Press or Public into the remotest outskirts of his confidence. After a five-hour sitting the Cabinet rose. Again only Scot MacDonald had anything to say. "I am very cheery and quiet and cool," he burbled. "We have a very clear mind as to what is to be done...
...science. The reporter is most likely to be damned if he does report and doubly damned if he doesn't. This is a rather sad and unreasonable state of affairs. As a newspaper reporter, and more recently as a magazine reporter, I have time & time again felt the cool breath of informed disdain, however long and conscientiously I may have striven to report accurately and sympathetically. If this fate were peculiar to me, it could be accounted for quite handily upon grounds of dunderheadedness and dissipated I.Q. Hut since I have few reporter or editorial acquaintances who have escaped such...
With Berlin boiling about Jews, Dr. Schacht sped up to cool East Prussia, opened the Konigsberg Fair with a bold declaration that Nazi extremism is "damned dangerous...
...days after talking taxes with President Roosevelt at a White House conference. Secretary Morgenthau last week appeared, cool, aloof and immaculate, before the Senate Finance Committee...
...without ecstasy. Bringing his imagination more sharply into focus, he peered through the popular novels of that spectacular moment of Spanish history in order to visualize the dusty, hungry, breakneck life of the common people. The amazing fertility of Lope de Vega, who wrote 2,200 plays, the cool, sinister elegance of El Greco, the salty, practical fervor of Saint Teresa gave Author Maugham a hint of the stormy intellectual and artistic climate in which his projected characters would live...