While the Illustrated Sydney News proclaimed it a truly wonderful feat, performed with the greatest coolness and consummate ability, not all of Sydney's press were so enthusiastic.
Wisden described Hirst as playing "a great game", noted the coolness of his play under pressure and said that "Hirst's innings was in its way almost as remarkable as Jessop's".
Praised for his "... great coolness and courage under heavy fire" during the attack, he was recommended for the Military Cross.
"From the Anglo-Saxon world, which he knew well, he adopted his professional codes, but also a certain coolness and a great sense of humor," the newspaper's journalists said in a statement.
Resolution was his greatest asset, and with imperturbable coolness he formed a new plan out of the wreckage.
Christie recalls, with a "great affection and admiration", Altman's coolness.
Coolness is, well, cool these days.
But Wellman's roughhouse style lacks the coolness and precision required for great satire, and you're left wondering what Ernst Lubitsch or Preston Sturges might have made of the material.
An extract reads: "You were invited to do a job which would require more skill and coolness, more hard work and greater danger, than was demanded of any other voluntary organisation.
"I have the chance to exercise this wonderful job and it was a pleasure to return as a young man from training to bring my coolness and my desire for a great season".
My face pressed against the back of the blond wig, arms around his zipped-in leather chest, and forward facing, his great façade of glasses, too handsome face, and coolness, holding in all the ideas.
