Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calm yourselves, gentlemen," said the spokesman of the Reichstag Decoration Committee, "President Ebert's bust was merely put there to see how it looks. Moltke's will be back soon. So will Bismarck...
...approached her, an erect, full-bosomed child-virgin, she did not see a little cad of 30-odd with a pale, muggy face, but remembered a man whose gesture had expressed the wonder she awaited in life. She made a dream of him, managed their whole affair in calm unquestioning ecstasy-quite the best affair he had ever had, thought Monsieur Ripois, until she told him they would marry now, for the child. At that Monsieur Ripois stole off and tried to materialize his greatest chance of all, incipient with Aurora Barnes, a rich, neurotic Francomaniac...
...succeeded by another son, Georgos II. The young King was moved by the best intentions, but was unable to keep his finger out of the political pie. This in itself was never a serious factor, but it entailed some friction and militated against political security at a time when calm was the one thing Greece needed. But the rise of ambitious soldiers like General Pangalos, who has been considered, even in Republican circles, as an adventurer with the Army behind him, was the chief cause of agitation. King Georgos was sent on an enforced vacation pending a plebiscite...
Ningpo. Rioting on a large scale began. Shops were looted and smashed. U. S. destroyers appeared on the scene. Calm followed...
...several years, Harvey S. Firestone, famed tiremaker, warned his countrymen of the dangers of a British rubber monopoly. Herbert C. Hoover took up the cry. But the public remained calm, and indifferent. Tires were still dirt-cheap, and Mr. Firestone's fulminations seemed visionary...