Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rejected (279-to-68) a Labor motion to outlaw private arms manufacture in Great Britain. Cool, sarcastic Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon headed off demands for an armaments inquisition by making the one held by the U. S. Senate appear uncouth. In eight hours of hot debate the munitions business received the most notable airing it has ever had in the House of Commons...
...regular" running expenses $1,142,000,000. If times were normal, that would seem to leave a $72,000,000 surplus. But times are far from normal and $1,112,000,000 was spent in four months for ''emergency" purposes. Result was a very real deficit of a cool billion dollars. Preparing the "ordinary" budget of department expenditures was merely the first and routine step. Big job was the selection of extraordinary projects on which the bright young men of the Administration have been quietly working while the political campaign roared outside their office windows. In nearly every case detailed...
...week Mr. Freeman installed himself at the Ritz-Carlton with a telephone and a great stack of U. S. currency at his elbow. Cables streamed in from London with instructions, betting odds. One after another ticket-holders shambled into his office, nervous, undecided, wanting to haggle. Mr. Freeman remained cool, crisp, firm as ever his father had been. "Take it or leave it. That's the price now and we may not be buying tickets on that horse later...
Outside the hall, beyond range of the speakers, the air is cool. A streetlight gleams on the building next the Curley headquarters. A paint-flaked sign proclaims the name of the building outside the Curley front door; "Hibernia Bank...
...four years he robbed rural banks, taking on new partners as his old ones fell dead by the wayside. Whenever pursuit got too close, he retired to the Cookson Hills where he reputedly keeps a string of mountaineers in funds in exchange for their close-mouthed hospitality. A murderously cool shot, his trigger finger has already accounted for at least six deaths. Fond of flashy clothes, he likes to show his bravado by returning to his home town, Sallisaw, Okla., for brief visits. He is wanted by the Federal Government for two murders, two mail robberies. Less than 24 hours...