Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...riverhead in a long conversation with his goldfather an old man who has found a philosophic calm, a true contentment, who reveals to him the diagnosis and cure of his disorder, Paul regains the use of his will. And padding down the river, he amends the situations be left untouched. The current is now with him, both physically and morally, and the going in considerably easier. The camp meeting he breaks up; to the two derelicts of the industrial world he gives a new start in life; and his step-mother, he persuades they could never be happy together...
...Harper Pennington, a friend who was enthusiastic over the spiritual quality of the picture, the Butterfly suddenly softened. "Yes, -yes," he drawled, tugging gently at the little tuft under his lip, "one does like to make one's mummy just as nice as possible." So simple, so calm is the "Mother" that it is difficult to realize with what angry cluckings it was hailed on its first exhibition. Only because Sir William Boxall, Whistler's friend, argued himself hoarse in its behalf did it get into the Royal Academy at all. Critic Tom Taylor of the Times...
...Contemporary of Wisconsin's much-touted Glenway Wescott at the University of Chicago, after taking a Ph.B. there she went to Manhattan, worked at writing. Critics fell over themselves to praise her first novel, The Time of Man, have continued to bow gravely in her direction. Unmarried, calm, grave, handsome, Authoress Roberts, 46, lives at Perryville, Ky., plans to write many another grave, calm, handsome Kentucky tale. Other books: My Heart & My Flesh, Jingling in the Wind, The Great Meadow, Under the Tree (verse...
...taken its economic smash with comparative calm. In 1930 when the Depression was still young the electorate swung strongly away from President Hoover and seated a Democratic House to plague him for the next two years. That was the last nation-wide index of the country's temper until the straw polls this autumn. There have been sporadic outbursts of disorder. At England, Ark. stores were raided. Near the Ford plant at Dearborn four persons were killed in an unemployment disturbance. Twenty thousand Bonuseers, marching to Washington last summer, kept the peace until Congress adjourned and might have stayed peaceful...
...complications; in Long Branch. N. J. An unnoted featherweight boxer, he trained Leach Cross, Frankie Burns, Joe Shevlin. Charlie White. Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), "Pal" Moore, Ted ("Kid") Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo. Little Trainer De Forest was the model for all trainers: capable of savage scorn, furious calm and a disarming mildness in handling fighters. Describing a knockout blow, he once said. "It just makes you dumb and useless and sort of discouraged. You don't feel...