Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Wood's Reception. Next day the Legislature opened. It was feared that there might be a demonstration when the Governor General delivered his message. Instead there was complete calm. Quezon sat on the platform looking grave and worn from a recent illness. Roxas sat with him, equally grave, but youthful in appearance. The Governor's entry was announced. Everyone rose...
...present appeared to be surprised at the speedy verdict except Ward himself, who preserved his appearance of complete confidence till the very end. Though his personal attorney broke down and the eyes of his trial counsel, Judge Mills, filled with tears on hearing the verdict, Ward remained cool and calm, if not cynical. One of the jurymen stated after the trial that it was Ward's absolute appearance of confidence and of " sheer decency" that led the jury to determine he could not have killed Sailor Peters in cold blood...
While the bitterness of counsel has been almost unparalleled, Justice Wagner has been able to hold the bucking legal broncos well in hand. He is the calm, confident, dominating figure of the court room. He handles the lawyers much as a school teacher would handle unruly primary children. While authoritative in his manner, he is not autocratic or haughty. His main endeavor is to preserve order and obedience, and to have the proceedings possess the dignity of a trial rather than resemble the wranglings in a barroom...
...Summer has been comparatively calm. Now the war on heretics begins again...
...quite disillusioned when he discovered that Elena had put Manos Duras, the bandit, up to kidnapping little Celinda. So, with even her own servants turned against her, Elena fled back to Paris with the one eligible, wealthy male remaining, Moreno, and life on the Rio Negro resumed its former calm...