Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nateur de Monsies proposed a temporary measure of amnesty pending the passage of the main bill. This was too much for old, die-hard Royalist, le Sénateur Dominique Delahaye. Cried he: "You love the Boches too much!" The usually calm Senators became much agitated. White-haired old men became almost inarticulate with rage. Left Senators pounded, with bony and with fat hands, the tops of their desks, loudly calling upon the President of the Senate, le Sénateur de Selves, to call the spirited Delahaye to order...
World Court "When the hour of calm reflection strikes, who will deny that the peace of America is by the side of the Permanent Court of International Justice, to which by example and precedent she has been so great a contributor...
...ethics of the proceeding seem a little hazy. One wonders whether Pollyanna's creator would be unqualifiedly "glad" at this calm appropriation of her brainchild. It is true, however, that there have been and still are voracious readers of this drivel. Over half a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, it was translated into five languages, including Japanese, and a Finnish edition is now under way. A prodigious mushroom crop of "Glad dubs" sprang up in its wake, and innumerable families were afflicted with "glad" little girls who, when a bee stung them, were glad it wasn...
...There can be no suggestion that those acts could offend British prestige or dignity. They merely demonstrate rudeness, lack of calm, and should be treated with patience and pity...
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