Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calm under the harsh Riviera sun. Eighty-two children crowded the small 30-ft. motor launch Annamaria as it pulled out from the little seashore town of Loana. With shrill chatter and singing, the children (aged ten to twelve) set forth with six women guardians and three crewmen for the isle of Gallinaria, six miles away...
Patolita v. Garbage. The gale blew itself out, but the near-dead calm that followed was almost as bad. The luckless Patolita radioed that she was having a race with her own floating garbage. Dolphin II found a breezier area...
Before the Bull. On the last day (memorable for big, tough bulls), Manolete (real name: Manuel Rodriguez) himself appeared, icily calm in a white & gold costume. To him, rather than any other, is due the present revival of the art of the corrida. He gets as much as 150,000 pesetas ($13,700) for a single performance, and his Mexican partner, Carlos Arruza, gets almost as much. This pair has collared so many important fights and so much of the big Mexican bullfight money that they are engaged in a squabble with the Spanish Bullfighters Syndicate, headed by Juanito Belmonte...
Miss Couppey's only other book is Chansons pour Moi, a volume of quiet, unaffected verse. Rumor in the Forest's calm, allegorical reaffirmation of Christ-like love is all the more effective because it too never raises its voice...
...voice spread and her acting became exaggerated. Between acts, she took counsel with herself, decided that she never again would sing in one language with the rest of the cast singing in another ("It's too lonely"), and that "the only thing I could do was to calm down, to get my voice in place and hope for the best." The best was good enough to graduate her to the opera house...