Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flying Sam" to Geneva where he at once dwarfed handsome young Captain Anthony Eden, His Majesty's Minister for League of Nations Affairs. All the world knew that if any voice could halt Dictator Benito Mussolini's prospective war of African conquest, that voice was Great Britain's? the calm, chilling voice of Sir Samuel Hoare...
...fact the Dictator's answer to Geneva. "The Hoare and Laval speeches," declared Premier Mussolini's communiqué, "could not be different from what they were because of the English and French positions with regard to the League Covenant. For this reason they have been received with the greatest calm by responsible Italian circles and by the masses of the people." (Actually Italians who anxiously snatched up newspapers last week were visibly perturbed by M. Laval's speech, most Italians having expected him to aid Il Duce with something more than weasel words...
...calm the initial panic produced last week by Stalin's new order, nervous Soviet citizens were assured that this time the Government will be more lenient in probing for enemies. Also, whereas Red passports have previously been for three years, the new ones will be issued for five years, a major Soviet boon...
...battle of Press v. Radio, the latter has lately seemed to be gaining ground. On one front the Press-Radio pact, designed to put Radio on a starvation diet of newscasts, virtually broke down last spring. Last July, on another front, Editor & Publisher took its first calm view of newspaper-owned radio stations, advised publishers not to be caught napping if and when new wavelengths are available...
Habitual loafers on Boston Common know enough not to be alarmed by anything that happens in that calm and curious little park. Last week, however, they were mildly surprised to see a collection of 100 or so women congregate, sit down on camp chairs and start furiously to knit. The knitting turned out to be part of Boston's tercentenary celebration and it commemorated a spinning contest held there 182 years ago which ended in a riot when some 600 Boston husbands took exception to the distribution of prizes. Last week, loafers on the Common waited hopefully...