Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a great mistake when we assume that a happy marriage is one without a hitch or minor squabble from year to year. A marriage without a hitch or two is a dull affair enjoyed only by dull people. The young man and maiden who look forward to a calm sea voyage for life are, if their expectations be fulfilled, to be of little use to each other. Let us face all the facts and not dream of a drawing-room geniality which is responsible for more disappointments in marriage than anything else. Have...
After painting a dark picture of Germany's immediate past and a rosy canvas of her future, Mr. Houghton, soon to be U.S. Ambassador to Britain (where he will not be allowed to remain silent), proposed a toast to Baron von Maltzan whom he described as "always calm, always steady, with an unshaken belief in Germany's future and with an eager desire to rebuild her relations with America on a lasting basis of peace...
...whom good luck has left happily unfamiliar with that code, the record of his life from the day when he, a waif as woebegone as Poor Tom on Lear's heath, was befriended by Quong Lee, Chinese storekeeper, to the day when his first short story was published. Calm faces of Canton and Malaya move through mist down a narrow London street; in bad doorways, sailors' knives flash; the rain beats a tattoo of talons on the windows of the house of Quong Lee; the wind sniffs under the door. Tom, the Hardcress Kid, is safe now, warm...
...educated man is a man with certain subtle spiritual qualities which make him calm in adversity, happy when alone, just in his dealings, rational and sane in the fullest meaning of that word in all the affairs of his life...
Early on the day before Christmas, a stir that had moved for weeks beneath the regal calm of the Vatican rose to its crescendo. Through lofty-ceilinged corridors and spacious chambers, the imminence of a great occasion loomed almost into sight, quickening men's steps, sharpening conversations. Legates, priests, guards, swarms of distinguished visitors came and went busily or stood in knots waiting. The sheen of myriad deep-dyed silks, the richness of furs and laces and sparkling gems moved everywhere in splendid profusion. Occasionally way was made for the slow, scarlet dignity of a cardinal, gala in ceremonial...