Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frantic measures to assure safety were necessary with the R-34. Until the last cable had been tied at the huge Roosevelt Field, anxiety was in every man's mind. The ZR-3's arrival at Lakehurst was calm, almost commonplace...
...push an empty chair to the front of the platform and call for "strong and cautious" Coolidge. Then turning dramatically toward the empty seat he has fired his questions at the administration. After pausing for an answer, the Senator next remarks. "The usual silence emanates from the strong, calm, cautious man in the White House." Effect? Why, it brought down the house. And besides this, Mr. Dawes has been calling everybody "plutogogs" and losing votes. So that, all in all, it was more than human nature could stand to remain silent longer...
...CRIMSON attempted to calm the storm by explaining editorially that "What we want is a large demonstration which will reflect credit upon the college. Men who are indifferent as to which procession to join should do as the majority directs...
...usual silence emanates from the strong, calm, cautious man in the White House...
...trumpetings of mad elephants. Two hundred Communists, armed to the eyebrows with sticks, swooped upon the Premier, uttering the terrible cry of "Amnestie!"* M. Herriot turned pale. The Communists surrounded him, waved their sticks, "threatened" him. Several times he was all but hit; yet he remained proverbially cool, calm. Police arrived in time to prevent the Premier from being damaged. The Communists were routed. The Premier was pushed into an automobile, driven to the station where he caught a train for Paris...