Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the Fascist Party and burning with no fanatical flame, Professor Guarneri, who reports three times a week to II Duce, closed with the calm estimate that even assuming successful military operations, which every Italian hopes will be swift and glorious, the development of Ethiopia would in any case require "fifty years of sacrifice before reaping the commensurate reward." Perfectly aware of this, Dictator Mussolini last week loosed the frenzy required to build empires, with sirens, church bells, battle planes thundering over every Italian city of importance and a nationwide hookup of loudspeakers in public squares which enabled...
...skeleton crew, harassed Captain Johan van Dulken yammered for tugs, kept one eye cocked on the horizon for their approach, the other on the sky for signs of bad weather, which he well knew would batter his ship to bits. For five days his worried vigil was rewarded with calm weather, as speedily-marshaled salvagers arrived and went to work. Having only two salvage ships at hand last week when it was estimated more than 50 tugs were needed, officials of Merritt, Chapman & Scott Inc., No. 1 U. S. salvagers, decided to make the Rotterdam rescue herself. Lightening ship...
Sitting in his office at Cheyenne, late one night last week, the airport radio operator heard the calm voice of United Airlines Pilot H. A. ("No Collision") Collison report that his big, twin-motored Boeing transport, bound from San Francisco to New York with twelve aboard, was but a few miles away, 4,000 ft. up, ready to glide down for the scheduled Cheyenne landing. Simultaneously, another plane approached from the East. "Please delay landing until further orders while Westbound plane comes in," radioed the operator to Pilot Collison. There was no answer. The operator signaled again. Still there came...
...rate, what he has done in his three short weeks calls for congratulations and hope. But at the first game of the season, the attitude of the spectators was so artistically phlegmatic that it is impossible to become vitriolic in denouncing it. As a dramatic achievement the unbroken calm of the grandstands surpasses anything out of Hollywood...
...social security legislation just enacted." The replies were not expected before the President's return from "a short vacation." But in many a city many a preacher made public his reply even before the Presidential vacation began, and not all replies were characterized by pastoral calm. Most peppery comeback was released by Dr. David M. Steele, rector emeritus of swank Episcopal Church of St. Luke & the Epiphany in rich, Republican Philadelphia. His windup: "The only help I can render you or the American people is to vote for the next Republican candidate who, by the grace of God, shall...