Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...balance in all sincerity. For our great asset we have the daily increasing production of French industry in all its branches. Our industrialists, our merchants and our farmers have returned with ardor to their tasks. Work has been resumed throughout the country with a spirit of order and calm which agitators have been unable to disturb...
...Flower, with a cinema out of the same wardrobe. It is. a medieval tale, highly costumed -a Princess of Burgundy, her cruel father, the half-wit son of the French King. Miss Davies manages two roles. She weeps artistically over a handsome suitor, but the story leaves you calm. Despite great pictorial beauty and a squad of villains, the picture has no drive. It is a gorgeous military parade, with armies in armor and battlements for lighter relief...
...last 100 years been painting Hinduism in the most hideous possible colors. They have shown through pulpits and press their satisfaction that Hindu religious doctrines are mythological accounts of the passionate escapades and cruelties of a host of imaginary gods and goddesses. However, the East has maintained her philosophic calm at such a procedure, knowing full well that this is one way of getting public recognition and the only one known to the West: Casting slurs upon other peoples' institutions in order that one's own may shine prominently is an old trick, though a base...
Addressing the Federation of British Industries at London in his Presidential capacity, Sir Eric Geddes, brother of Sir Auckland, the retiring British Ambassador to the U. S., advised the panic-mongers to calm themselves. "This," said he, "is not the time for panic mongering or wild talk. Undoubtedly the advent of a new party?a most inexperienced party?of which certain extremists make proposals which shock us, has caused uneasiness, but there has been no panic, nor anything that can be described as such. The sky is not black with pound notes winging their way across the Atlantic, but doubtless...
...taxation and the question of what the voters will think-there for them are the real questions. "Under these conditions the question of the Ruhr occupation appears to them to be nothing more than an academic debate, and that is undoubtedly why this question was handled with the greatest calm yesterday." The following summary of Premier Poincare's failures was also enumerated: The separatist movement he fostered has been denounced; the franc has depreciated 86% since he came into power; the cost of living has gone up by leaps and bounds; the Allied Commission in control of Germany...