Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marine's letter quoted by Walter Winchell reported that Vanderbilt had 35 pictures of K. T. pinned up in his boat, had lost about 20 lb., was jaundiced, had "an anemic little beard, but the courage of a lion . . . cool, daring and deadly...
...Colorado the crowds were warm, the party leaders cool. Some party men, like Governor John C. Vivian, were cautiously "open-minded"; others, like shock-haired ex-Governor Ralph Carr, who had seconded Willkie's nomination in 1940, were hostile. Across the border in Wyoming, the reception was different: roly-poly Jim Griffith, State G.O.P. chairman, led the cheers at a banquet in the old Plains Hotel, where the crowd spilled out from the banquet hall into the hotel lobby and an adjoining drugstore...
Every dog on the post has become his friend and follows him like an aide-de-camp. Lou's barbers have been terrorized into a new record for a Marine haircut-six seconds flat. And each night there are two to three cases of cool beer on hand to be shared with a veteran M.P. sergeant who can almost keep up with Lou at cribbage...
...arrogance, fastidious to the point of inhumanity. Evidence, including anonymous accusations, strongly suggests that Leonardo was a homosexual. Wrote the late Sigmund Freud in his Leonardo da Vinci: "In a period where there was a constant struggle between riotous licentiousness and gloomy asceticism, Leonardo presented an example of cool sexual rejection...
...seen die, he had not seen or heard of one who met death with terror. He knew that he would treat wounded Southern soldiers as gently. The faces of the dead were transfigured. He stepped out of his tent one grey, dim daybreak, and walked in the cool fresh air to the hospital tent, uncovering the features of three of the dead - an elderly man, gaunt and grim, a young boy, and a third -Young man 7 think I know you - 7 think this face is the face of the Christ himself, Dead and divine and brother...