Word: phlegming
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Before Cluny knows it, she is raising hob with the punctilio of three levels of snobbery-the aristocratic, the backstairs (Sara Allgood et al.) and, deadliest of all, the lower middle class. A tyrannical druggist (Richard Haydn) woos her with selections on the parlor organ; his phlegm-racked, fearsome little mother (Una O'Connor) believes her unworthy. Cluny's guardian angel throughout her tribulations is a prewar anti-Nazi refugee (Charles Boyer), who finds it equally impossible to persuade liberal English friends that he won't be assassinated at any moment, and to persuade tories that England...
...true that many Britons, especially belligerent beldames of 70 and up, reacted to the robots with that admirable and tiresome mixture of flippancy, phlegm and self-conscious stoicism that non-Britons find so hard to understand. "Why, the silly things," cracked one old lady last week, "the Germans are throwing darts...
...this does not mean that the people liked the Germans. The Normans bore their four years of occupation as they would have borne any other unwelcome visitation, with patience and a good deal of phlegm. The people here are not as demonstrative or excitable as are the people of many parts of France, and the wars of 1870 and 1914 had left them without the active hatred of the Germans that other Frenchmen felt. And so they went on with their cattle raising and farming and horse-racing and with their smalltown occupations. Although the resistance movement was not inactive...
...Swedish Nazis also talked of the necessity of saving Sweden from Bolshevism, and with the menacing Berlin radio gnawing in their ears many Swedes lost their Scandinavian phlegm. Stockholm ordered the completion of what amounted to a general mobilization of nearly 600,000 men. One of Europe's two remaining neutral democracies prepared for the worst...
...geopolitician, Professor Spykman wrote with the colossal calm of the new fatalism in which geography is destiny. A Dutchman (he was naturalized in 1928), he viewed destiny with the phlegm common to a people that has lived for generations below sea level. A professor of international relations at Yale, he thought with the cold-bloodedness of a historian who knows that nations come & go, but that the human race goes...