Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This hardly seemed the proper tone for future partners. Nor were the times ripe for calm negotiation. But as the sensations of Germany's conflict with Danzig dwindled before the bigger sensation of a German-Russian anti-aggression pact, Yugoslavia's quarreling factions reluctantly, slowly, drew together: sporazum was announced as ready for signing as soon as Yugoslavia's Regent Prince Paul agreed. A Balkan saying has it that the only difference between a Croat and a Serb is that a Croat is ten minutes late, a Serb ten minutes later. Last week it looked...
Byron (affairing with calm Lady Oxford, who told him, "a broken heart is nothing but a bad digestion") wrote Caroline saying: "Correct your vanity which has be come ridiculous . . . and leave me in peace." Caroline had convulsions for a fortnight. She offered herself to any young man who would fight a duel with Byron. She put new livery on her footmen with buttons engraved: "Ne crede Byron" ("Do not believe Byron...
Remember the Iron Duke? A stout old whale, with twelve-inch steel skin.* Forward of her two tall funnels, forward of her bridge-balancing tripod mast, in a heavily armored conning tower, calm little Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, stood giving orders during the biggest battle of them all, Jutland...
...severe winters there are more cases of tuberculosis in the North than in the South. Yet a higher proportion of Southerners than Northerners die from T.B. every year. Reason: the same harsh winds which often drive Northerners into sick beds also end by toughening them. Southerners living in a calm climate have no chance to develop their forces of resistance...
...with the present world-wide mess, and I think that such influence as it retains in modern society is due to its financial backing rather than to its spiritual appeal. It was a spiritual force once, but the indwelling spirit will have to be restated if it is to calm the waters again, and probably restated in a non-Christian form...