Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were German made. French police tried to blame the Nazis. Jugoslav crowds hurled insults at Italian consulates. Orthodox Serbians pelted Roman Catholic churches with stones, then switched their spleen to Hungary which had given shelter to Ustashi. A dozen chancelleries grew worried. Press attacks suddenly ceased. Jugoslavia, too. was calm. It might be the heavy silence before the hurricane, but for the time being even the angry attacks against Italy ceased. Jugoslavia, like all Europe, was waiting to see if the new Regency could govern that piebald land...
Autumn term began last week. For the first time anyone could remember, perhaps for the first time in history, the Minister of Justice was not there. Gone too was the academic calm. Young lawyers waved their long black sleeves and roared: "Justice! Justice! Justice! Pfui Chéron'. A has les Assassins!" To the base of a memorial to all French judges who have died for their country the young lawyers dragged a huge wreath. It was marked: IN MEMORY OF JUDGE PRINCE?MURDERED...
...trying to make her daughters do the right thing, Ma Solomon has made bad matters worse. Florrie's beau marries a wench. Tillie is embittered by her disappointment. Florrie dies despondently in childbirth. Only Ma's old friend, the Butcher Freiberg (Joseph Greenwald) maintains his customary calm, wagging his head as he reads Hebrew prayers in the Solomon parlor...
...writes on the assumption that the proper study of the poet is the inner man, and in his poems he soliloquizes with sad coherence on the tangled emotional morals of a static mankind. Poets Auden and Spender are fiercely, often incoherently impatient of all that. Poet Robinson is a calm skeptic; they, passionate disbelievers. More satirical, less serious a poet than Spender, Auden half-fills his book with prose patches: a mock oration, an airman's journal, geometrical figures, a parody litany. Most observable emotion in Auden is scorn: of those round-table experts "lecturing on navigation while...
...babies such as hermaphrodites in Montana, hairlips in Maine (TIME, July 23), Dr. William Ferdinand Petersen of the University of Illinois analyzed the seasonal trend on Chicago conceptions and last week, in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, was able to state that almost every Chicago baby conceived in calm July, August and September was born perfect. But babies conceived in stormy March and April showed an abnormal percentage of abnormalities-imperfect spines, cleft palates, club feet...