Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced to leave Cap'n Andy's troupe when it turns out she is a mulatto illegally married to a white man. Paul Robeson appears as the honest, lazy handyman who does little but sing 01' Man River while the camera travels from his calm black face to toiling Negroes, and finally to the broad, rippling Mississippi - in this case the Los Angeles River, widened to 100 ft. by three steam shovels...
This week the New York Times blossomed with a full-page advertisement featuring a cablegram from Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine: "We appeal to American Jewry to share the undaunted but calm courage of the Jewish community of Palestine and to strengthen their efforts by contributing generously to the funds of the United Palestine Appeal. . . . The Jewish community is behaving admirably despite the trying provocation...
...anything be done under the different and often contradictory laws of 48 states to solve the major problems of farm, labor, social security, crime, conservation, relief? Last week the centre of that storm was over Chicago and, like the centre of many a storm, it was a dead calm. Democrats and Republicans, sitting side by side in conference, tackled that highly charged question. Yet there was hardly a flash of political lightning, for their object was not to get elected but to get results, not to break political heads but to try a new invention in practical government...
...hand. Neither accident made her cry. She has, however, a normal small girl's maternal instinct. When she picked up her favorite doll and the doll's arm came off in her hand, she burst into a fit of hysterical sobs. It took half an hour to calm...
...daunted. He had learned to fly at 16, and his own father had been Spain's first civilian pilot. He would fly 7,000 miles to his sweetheart's side. Juan collected some money in his home town of Santander, bought a monoplane, and one calm night new to Natal, Brazil while the Spanish Cortes uttered sympathetic cheers. Meanwhile Maria almost spoiled matters by denying that they were engaged. But after writing some signed pieces for Universal Service about what a fine boy Juan was, she changed her mind...