Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disposed of 1,000 shares to Lloyd George, sold the rest at a profit. Newspapers made a political issue of the "Marconi Scandal," raised a cry of Corruption. Before the House of Commons, Lloyd George made an impassioned plea for vindication. Sir Rufus followed with a long, calm, judicial speech, admitting negligence, denying any connection between stock purchase and contract. The House accepted his apology, cleared him of blame...
...easel with remarkably little success. When he was middleaged, he carved one day a nude figure in wood. It seemed the most satisfactory work he had ever done, and from then on Aristide Maillol was a sculptor. Recognition came first from Germany where, just before the War, his calm, placid nudes were hailed with delight as 'the essence of Greece...
Aristide Maillol is not interested in character. Like Renoir, he loves the human body for itself. His calm impressive figures are almost expressionless; so too is his latest model, a strapping Greek beauty of such vast placidity that the Matisses, father & son, found it almost impossible to carry on even the simplest conversation with her. What Pierre Matisse had to exhibit last week were 19 drawings of the lady from various angles. Preliminary studies for sculpture, far more finished than most sculptors' sketches, they were priced from...
...grey mist hung close to the grey, metallic Thames. It was early in the morning and the ships that came from Virginia and the East lay at anchor, silent and calm. Out of the murky water stood the colorless walls and turrets of the Tower of London; and, on the big White Tower, the flag of the Stuarts, wet and heavy, slapped against its pole as the giddy wind of a London fog caught it and let it fall...
Today a motley, apprehensive horde of youth will undergo their fiery baptism of registration. The prevailing atmosphere of bewildered anxiety insures the experienced a profitable hunting; but with calm evening and the Yard emerges a sense of reassurance. Their names have been recognized, they have received confusingly minute instructions, and the first term bill is already due; there is the essence. Within a few short weeks the transition will be complete. As individuals they will have graduated to Freshman agnosticism and crew cuts, to indifference and gabardine; there is the effect. They are Harvard...