Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politicos got a shock: Tom Dewey, a cool politician, appeared to have outsmarted himself. He had played coy a little too long. Six months ago, he was first told of plans to enter a slate of Dewey-pledged delegates in Wisconsin's Presidential primary. Last week, before Wendell Willkie announced that he would stump the state in person, the New York Governor could have withdrawn his name and maintained intact his pose of aloofness to party leadership. But the Dewey delegates, though forewarned of his intentions, had filed their entries last week before Dewey released the news that...
Thus, after a cool compliment to Baruch's free-enterprise ideology, Senator George warmly advised the press that he and Baruch were unalterably at odds on "the question of whether the economic destiny of the country is to be settled by executive directives or by . . . the elected representatives of the people." Grimly he added that his bill to make Congress the postwar boss would be introduced early this week. The bill's coauthor, 100% New Dealer James Murray of Montana, merely mumbled something about "Mr. Baruch's admirable report" and "the need for broad legislative action...
...hills near one country town, where mammoth green tanks snort around an ancient castle, and groves of trees hide hundreds of howitzers, U.S. newsmen gazed last week at a cool $4,000,000,000 worth of materiel...
...know, 'sfunny how good that last 'poon was. Unuzual, y'might say. 'Nother funny thing izzat it looked familiar. Never seen a 'poon that looked so familiar. Most of 'em y' never knew, or ever wanted to know, and y' leave 'em in th' icebox 'till they cool off a bit and lose dat smell y' can always tell an honest 'poon...
That salute is characteristic of Preston Sturges' treatment of a theme which might more normally interest Theodore Dreiser or some true-confessions Dumas. Sturges, like René Clair, has always understood the liberating power of blending comedy and realism, wild farce and cool intellect. But the best of the domestic and anarchic satire cannot be suggested on paper; it is too thoroughly cinematic. It reaches its perfection in William Demarest, whose performance is one of the few solid-gold pieces of screen acting in recent years. But chief credit for The Miracle must go to Sturges, who has given...