Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only the school janitor, William Hunter, kept calm. He flung himself on the beast's back, grappled, kicked. Presently Policeman .Howard McMiller ran in to help him. After a fierce struggle, McMiller drew his revolver. Trained to fear firearms, the lioness skulked to a corner...
Unnerved by the prisoner's mild but fluttery behavior, several women whom he had stabbed and left for dead but who turned up as witnesses at the trial had hysterics, screamed, fainted in the court. But no less calm than the prisoner was one stolid, buxom peasant wench. She told how Kuerten had got her down, pierced her 30 times with a dagger "until the blade broke...
...Wisedon, owned by Miss M. Lark, at 100 to 8: the Welsh Grand National at Cardiff on a wet course, with Vinicole second and Quite Calm third. John Hay Whitney's Dusty Foot was scratched...
When asked how strongly the people of his native land were opposed to this customs union, Professor Vermeil said, "I read an article the other day in a very reliable French bulletin which discussed the situation with a calm tone saying that the union was inevitable. In the constitution of Weimar there is a provision for union. But Pan-Germanism is and remains a great danger, particularly since the elections of September 1930. If the customs agreement is successful, if the Italians and the Balkans come into it, there will be a danger of Germany getting dreams of European empire...
...monthly meeting of the New York Microscopical Society pursued its calm way fortnight ago until Dr. Maximilian Toch, michro-chemist, arose to speak. Dr. Toch's specialty is the analysis of paint, the verification of works of art by microphotography. To the assembled scientists he showed numerous lantern slides, explained his theory: a painting may be identified by magnification of the artist's brushstrokes, which are as characteristic as his handwriting. Like a firecracker came a specific statement: None of the Rembrandts in the Metropolitan Museum is genuine, with the possible exception of The Gilder from the Havemeyer Collection...