Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small group of officials who watched the Gimo's plane land. Following greetings, Chiang and his friends banqueted on fried shrimp, stuffed chicken and mandarin fish with sweet and sour sauce at Hangchow's famed Lou Wai Restaurant. Said one of the guests: "The Generalissimo seemed calm and relaxed-like one who has solved a great problem and is content...
...Hollywood. A more nervous ghost would be scared stiff by Considine's working schedule, but he remains a calm 190 pounds. One day last week Considine got up at 9 a.m., wrote two Stripling articles, skipped lunch as usual, interviewed Stripling for five hours, wrote a sport column, had dinner, gave a broadcast, wrote two more Stripling pieces before...
Murch's paintings, on view in a Manhattan gallery last week, had all the dim, cold calm of false dawn. They were done with dead-eye accuracy, in greenish gobs of shadow laced with silvery threads and buttons of light. He had put the paint on thickly, Murch explained, because "that helps create a thing out of the painting itself." Among his table-top subjects were a dead bird, a dead fish poised on a clinker, an ancient phonograph, and assorted eggs, lemons and potatoes...
Crusty old Louis Ernst Schmidt likes his reputation as a terrible-tempered man. But this week, portly, pink-cheeked Dr. Schmidt was basking in a Sabbathlike calm. It was the physician's 80th birthday, and a delegation of colleagues turned up, first to give him a reception at Northwestern's medical school library and then a banquet at Chicago's Drake Hotel...
Over the Mountains. A priest, who was the only Japanese to see them after death, said that their faces were "serene, calm, clear"-a statement which those who have seen hanged men would regard as doubtful...