Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dismay that the picture tree has no roots of plot. It teeters badly and threatens to collapse at the first breath of a yawn. When the heroine is growing up as a tomboy in the country there is entertainment. When she moves up to London a great calm suddenly comes up. She murders her early, faithless lover to stimulate the ending and marries Milton Sills. "She" is Virginia Valli and an exceptionally soothing performance-optically if not technically-she gives...
...course, if there were a general feeling that recognition of Russia would merely increase her potency for hostile propaganda, and would seriously threaten our national safety, recognition would be manifestly out of the question. But the calm way in which the public has accepted the Moscow dispatches, and applied salt to the tales of revolution and conspiracy proves that there is no real fear. It proves, on the contrary, that America regards Russia with interest but certainly without much apprehension. And in view of this favorable attitude, the policy of far-sighted statesmanship,--if not of ordinary, average common-sense...
Political circles in Berlin predicted an era of political calm, but many are the thorns that will prick the new dictatorship when it begins to function. At all events the Government seems safe until the next general elections, which should take place next Summer...
...Accustomed to the dissipations of years of destruction, temperate men have become gluttonous, calm men avid, honest men robbers and even the best of men dishonest. Usury and appropriation is practiced under the name of business, and under the insignia of large industry a small group is engaged in.pirating against the public. . . . The ostentation of the rich has convinced everybody that nothing counts in this Heaven- estranged earth but money and what can be bought and wasted with money...
SEVENTH HEAVEN ? A faithful soul, lifted by a wave of love off the reefs of despair, is deposited at last in the calm lagoon of love. Helen Menken is the star; War-time Paris, the locale...