Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pounding with clenched fist, Dr. Stresemann shouted back: "I will not stand for such impertinence!" Recovering his usual calm, he concluded : "We are glad that the standpoint of all the powers concerned was that the Locarno policy must be continued...
...Donald McKaye who made Boston famous with his clipper-ships. The "Chance" will be 75 feet long, and will have a displacement of 40 tons. Iselin designed her himself. She will be a schooner with a 40 horse power Lathrop engine to be used in case of calm in the fjords, and for running the winch to which will be attached 400 fathoms of gear. This is approximately the depth of the water over the Continental shelf...
...almost five months a cabinet crisis has existed at The Hague, where such occurrences are taken with phlegmatic calm. The last Cabinet, headed by Premier Colyn, quietly resigned after the Second Chamber (House) had attached a rider to the budget refusing funds to maintain the legation representing the Netherlands at the Vatican (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, after innumerable steady-going attempts to form a Cabinet had failed, meagre despatches reported that former Finance Minister de Geer has succeeded in getting together a Ministry in which Dr. H. A. Kapnebeek will continue as Foreign Minister...
...perception of and longing for the nobler love render the beautiful and gifted Carlota, so comprehending of herself and others, impervious to a love far from satisfying? And how could Philip, the object of the love, once awake to human passion, return so inexorably to a calm monastic prison? Ever conscious of "The Cloister and the Hearth" with its profound tragedy of two ever-faithful lovers, the reader finds in the story of Philip and Carlota little to arouse emotion...
...Seven Sinners" is not as important as Mr. Schildekraut's troubles in the Ghetto, but it is far more readily appreciated. Miss Prevost is given a chance to display her saucy mischievous talent in a hectic tale of thieves and thievery. Mr. Brook in his calm imperturbable way is called upon to sleep below a dripping shower in the bath-tub. There are momentary chances for Lubitsch subtlety which are ignored. But the direction has added instead a dash of slapstick. Only one character in the picture is honest, and he turns out to be a policeman, which...