Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty sat for almost an hour, close to the man whose face was only mangled meat, talking serenely on indifferent subjects, unsmiling yet calm, reassuring, queenly. She said afterwards: "It was indescribable. I thought I could not do it; but then, of course, there is nothing...
...which, if for no other reason is laudable on account of its in time qualities and the moral certainty that--come what may--the victor will be the same. In other athletic contests there is a disturbing element of chance. But today there are no upsets. An Olympian calm pervades Plympton Street, for the conventional huge scarlet margin has been got out, dusted, and is ready for service. The Lampoon with its gracile lethargy and its dogged comic spirit has without cessation offered itself as the goat or the this or whatever constitutes the flors and fauna of defeated parties...
...Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman," is technically one of the most interesting authors now writing. Like Virginia Woolf, she never wastes a word. Each sentence is placed deftly, accurately; each paragraph is an exquisitely tooled bit. And like another woman writer, Willa Cather, she possesses a refreshing air of calm and quiet. When one reads her it is with a sense that the book is a treat; that it is of a rare vintage, not often obtainable...
...minds. They would begin to notice the roads, the buildings, the fences, the farm animals. When once more they found themselves aware of the world, alert to their surroundings, Dr. Gehring sent them about their business, cured, happy. No stigma of nervous exhaustion remained.... Today Bethel is as calm and placid as Dr. Gehring found it 32 years ago when he went there to quiet his nerves. One of Dr. Gehring's neighbors at Bethel is rich William Bingham II, also of Cleveland. William Bingham II gave away $200,000 last week. Like the $200,000 donation...
Died. Marquis de Viana, Spanish Court Chamberlain, onetime Grand Master of the Horse; in Madrid. Last September he and King Alfonso dashed 300 miles by night in a motor over muddy country roads and dangerous mountain passes, to calm a threatened rebellion in Madrid, where twelve regiments of artillery had mutinied (TIME, Sept...