Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheerfulness. ... He jested with all comers in most easy fashion: yet, when we fell into serious talk, the veil of humor seemed to fade away as he chose his words, and argued shrewdly. ... As our conversation continued, I became more and more sure that Abdullah was too balanced, too cool, too humorous to be a prophet. . . . His value would come, perhaps, in the peace after success...
After Socialist Minister of Trade Oscar Schnake Vergara returned from a six-month visit to Washington last December, Chile's Socialist Party became noticeably cool toward its Communist colleagues in the Popular Front. Minister Schnake had wangled a $17,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan for Chile, and in return was supposed to see that the U. S. got full cooperation in its plans for hemisphere defense. Last January Socialist Leader Marmaduke Grove announced that if the U. S. entered the war, Chile would follow...
...style, and, above all, its characters. Bo-Jo Brown, the college athlete, who is imbued with "the Class" and its reunion, is as unforgettable as Bill King, the rugged individualist, who is bored with the whole idea of the twenty-fifth and thinks Bo-Jo is "just a long cool drink of water." Marvin Myles, the girl (sic) with whom Harry first falls in love, is as intriguing a personality as Kay Motford, the girl he eventually marries, is conventional. And Harry Pulham himself, who is unable to break away from the traditions in which he was brought...
...lacklustre. On the credit side is Designer Raoul Pene du Bois's most effective setting, a chill, ominous picture of dawn in the park, which is never matched by anything that occurs on the stage. Red-haired Nancy Coleman is a lovely Liberty, especially in the cool blue satin nightgown of her sickroom period. John Beal manages quite a trick in playing Tom Smith without too strong a suggestion of Eagle Scoutism. Neither manages to breathe life into Mr. Barry's symbolism...
...maintain aloofness from the European tragedy... But now with... the flood of propaganda and falsehood sure to afflict us as it did prior to our entry into the World War, our aroused emotions and sympathies may sweep us off our moorings... We must keep our heads cool and preserve a strict and real neutrality. We are not likely to be able to do that by following a policy which many of us favor of professing neutrality, yet doing everything "short of war" we can do to help France and Britain...