Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prohibition Bureau, which came into being as a Treasury appendage on Jan. 16. 1920. Its direction ranged from the optimistic ballyhoo of Roy Asa Haynes through the sword-rattling of General Lincoln Clark Andrews to the do-nothing calm of Dr. James Maurice Doran. In 19.30 it was transferred to the Department of Justice. In 13 years it spent more than $100,000,000, took more than 250 lives. Last week its last director, Major Alfred Vernon Dalrymple, went bitterly out of office with familiar charges of "duplicity, double-crossing and double-dealing" against his subordinates. The Prohibition Bureau ceased...
...American president have need to be Sons Carlos & Luis and Daughter Maria rushed back the way they had come Though machine guns seemed to be firing though shouts of "Revolution! filled the air, they reached home to find that the Arsenal, not the Presidential Palace was afire. Safe and calm, President Sacasa was swiftly drafting two orders the first proclaimed a state ot siege in Managua the Capital, the second martial law throughout Nicaragua...
Providence is full of screw factories and steep nondescript streets. In the country there are no tawdry yellow lamps. There are a thousand trees, and each tree has a thousand thousand leaves, and each leaf falls to the ground where there are million grains of earth. In the calm of night, thought flows effortlessly like a great river, and embraces the whole world. The clamor and confusion of day are swept from the brain and a single eye comprehends the essence of all things. The imagination plays in a jewel-box ideas...
...Into the White House stormed Louisiana's rambunctious Senator Huey Long to "demand" his "rights" in the matter of political patronage. Thirty minutes later he emerged calm and chastened. "The President and I," said he, "are never going to fall out. I'll be satisfied whichever way matters...
Perry had blown up in the first set and that Merlin, playing with the calm arrogance of a Cochet, had won it at 6-4-that made the last match so exciting...