Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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rose be fair. --Calm, friendly shade --Let me wander (flute obligate...
...Vandervelde: "Calm, incisive, quietly confident...
When Chancellor Luther entered to present the Government plea for the Locarno Treaties, he was greeted by the Communists with "stentorian grunts" and cries of "Here comes the representative of international capital!" In an effort to calm those around him, Foreign Minister Stresemann sat through his colleague's speech with grimly folded arms. But it was only...
Last week, however, the suave and efficient Sir Eric* received tidings which foreshadowed a modicum of English recreation amid the Swiss calm of Geneva. From Viscount Cecil of Chelwood came a crisp cheque for ?1000, with the suggestion that ?500 be allotted for tennis courts at the disposal of the League Secretariat, and that the rest be used to extend the Geneva Golf Club's course and to assist impecunious undersecretaries to join the club. Viscount Cecil added that the ?1000 represented part of the $25,000 peace prize awarded to him by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation two years...
...organ in the street, and the book is slammed shut with a bang which last bang proves, after all, noise is victor. Indeed, this age has long ceased to be one of iron it is one of noise. And until there comes some quiet, until there arrives the majestic calm of a calmer century, there can be no deep philosophy, no vital...