Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With sandy hair untouched with gray, with clear, calm blue eyes, the new President is slow of speech, dry of humor, sparing of words. He comes from the long line of New England Coolidges. The first of them, John Coolidge, came to this country in 1687. The President is descended from another John Coolidge, a captain in the Revolutionary War, who went from Lancaster, Mass., to Vermont to reestablish his fortunes after...
...Gilmore, Winifred Lenihan, Katherine Cornell have all turned the earlier corners that mark the narrow road to greatness. Each one of these can show an American birth certificate. They are by no means alone in their eminence. Six or eight bright flashes from an even younger generation disturbed the calm of the season. Decidedly, there are abundant actresses...
Uproar broke out among the delegates. The three in the gallery started hastily to depart. A hatless crowd of delegates ran after them. Cooler heads tried to calm them, but a pugnacious Irishman knocked down Manley. Someone tumbled McCarthy over a hedge, and for a moment there was a general mêlée. Then newspaper men interfered and the radicals ran for safety...
...Railroad Labor Board took a dig at the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Samuel Rea, President of the road, made a thrust at the Railroad Labor Board. Then there was calm, if not peace, once more...
Despatches from London stated that Bonar Law, ex-Premier, is seriously ill. He may have to undergo an operation on his throat. Up to now Mr. Law has supported his valetudinarian existence with calm resignation. He saw only his closest friends, followed the daily political moves, played many rubbers of bridge. Cancer of the throat is his trouble...