Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behavior of the Hoover crowds was not all the President's friends wished for. They were respectful but cool. They lifted their hats but not their voices. The silence of the Indianapolis street crowds, which were far smaller than advertised, prompted a local Republican to explain to correspondents that they were tired from long standing and waiting for the President. Remarked an irreverent newshawk: "Well, they're not standing on their hands, are they...
...Cool heads, however, guided by retiring Moderator Hugh Thomson Kerr,* prevented the Pittsburgh General Assembly withholding its $18,000 from the Federal Council...
...enhanced by A Free Soul but it shows no sign of waning. As talking pictures emerged from the stage of experiment, she became the embodiment of the new mood in cinema drama to which they seemed best adapted -a mood which can be loosely described as Sophistication. That the cool glitter of an intelligence, added to patrician beauty, should have won her such immense and protracted popularity has suggested a fact which Hollywood might not otherwise have discovered: that if the talkies have not created a new cinema public, they have changed the old one beyond recognition...
...Just as a dentist hangs out a great tooth as a sign of his trade, or a druggist displays a mixing bowl as a sign of his, so up in Franconia Notch God has hung out a sign to show that in New Hampshire he makes men." In the cool of many mornings after the sophistry of this remark becomes all too plain, but the kernel of truth that inspired it still remains. The Vagabond has just been up in the "lofty state" and will vouch for the truth. Most unfortunately he was called away suddenly to tutor...
Professor Piccard blinked bewilderedly behind his spectacles at all the excitement. True, they had remained aloft longer than intended, but that was only because the gas valve had failed to work, and they were forced to wait until the cool of evening contracted the hydrogen in the balloon's bag which was only one-seventh full upon starting. Yes, it was fortunate that their oxygen held out so long. No, they suffered no hardship except heat and thirst. Half the shell of the gondola had been painted black to absorb the rays of the sun in the frigid stratosphere. Result...