Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hampden in the title role is a most saintly idealist. He plays his part thoroughly in keeping with the Browning tradition of ever marching breast foreward. He preserved the outward calm of a man who was assured of his ideals, and at the same time he avoided becoming a mere negative, white-faced ascetic. He undoubtedly gave the best performance of the evening...
...voyage from Hilo, Hawaii, to Salina Cruz, Mexico, in the vicinity of the Revilla Gigedo Islands, (Lat. 18°20' N., Lon. 114° 44' W.) approximately, on a placid spring day I noticed not far distant from the ship a considerable surface disturbance of an otherwise calm and listless...
...bear upon it, and instead of a violent, submarine volcanic action I saw two mammoth denizens of the deep-two whales-who were having a glorious time, splashing and frisking, tail-thwacking and nose-bumping, diving and hurdling, and their actions for a considerable radius had churned the calm, listless sea into a veritable caldron of boiling, foaming, angry water...
...gnarled fist, announced that unless the Young Plan was ratified by a majority large enough to show unmistakably that the Reichstag stood behind the government, the entire cabinet of Chancellor Hermann Muller would resign. Impressed, the Centrists voted. Then President von Hindenburg signed the bill and, further to calm public opinion, issued a lengthy press statement...
Crane operators of both types man-oeuvered their hooks with equal calm and skill, feeling that as long as they were working for different concerns on different jobs they could restrain any evil feelings that might otherwise have arisen. The break came when some of Zimble's non-union men did a job for Shaughnessy. At once there was friction in the air. Labor unions representing all the workers employed at the plant investigated the state of affairs, and incidentally ordered a strike. For the past week no work has gone on in consequence, and with the continuance...