Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles E. Hughes sat at his desk, enjoying his judicio-diplomatic calm. The world was spread out before his mind's eye. Before him was the western hemisphere; and the eastern hemisphere (on account of the peculiar arrangement with which the perplexing thing was made) stretched both east and west of the western hemisphere. To a less keen, less perceptive mind that arrangement would have seemed dumfounding...
Suddenly, a discordant sound impinged upon the Secretary's calm. In the House of Representatives, a member (Britten of Illinois) was rising to present a resolution calling for a conference of the "white nations bordering upon the Pacific" for unity of action against the aggression of Japan. To be sure, the House did not take the matter seriously; and several members condemned the proposition; but words once uttered go to the echo and come back. The Secretary was perturbed, beneath his calm, at the thought of that echo in Japan. He determined on a friendly action without delay...
...satisfied with anyone, except, now and then oneself. The educational world is introspective and the criticism of the day is a criticism of impatience. Uneasy folk upbraid one another for not achieving that which the demon of an age of externals longs for but will never achieve-cultured calm, a philosophical detachment...
...said. But in order that you gentlemen who live near the seashore may not think it necessary for the safety of your families to purchase far inland, because perfidious Albion is secretly breaking her engagements and arming contrary to treaty obligations, I will just say this in order to calm any fears you may entertain on the subject...
...British, however, handed over all the prisoners to the Egyptian judicial authorities. The Government issued a communique to the people urging them to be calm and saying in part: "The public, however, must also consider the grave and exceptional motives, leaving the Government to interpret the Constitution in a manner which, though justified by legal reasons, appears at first sight to restrict Parliamentary rights. The Government is obliged to take account not only of the gravity of the accusations against the Deputies concerned, but also of the necessity of safeguarding, as far as is still possible, the independence...