Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fight was over. The bodies of two white men, two Negroes and five Chinese were rolled into the sea. Calm once more. Several of the Chinese were wounded; the rest weak from privation. Without a skipper, without a crew, the Mary Beatrice drifted into Quarantine...
...session of Northern Baptists at Atlantic City was calm. Dr. John Roach Straton was hissed, but that was soon forgotten. (He had fulminated against liberal Baptist college presidents such as Faunce of Brown and Burton of Chicago...
Bonar Law, like President Harding, was elected to office because he is a conservative and therefore could be trusted to administer the country in a quiet, calm and dignified manner, without rushing into new and dangerous legislation. Bonar Law's term of office is conspicuous for its lack of enterprise. Nothing important, excepting the Baldwin Budget, was accomplished. He was content to keep Britain out of the Ruhr, to let trade take its own course, to keep out of foreign politics as much as possible. He cannot claim any credit for the agreement with Washington on the British debt; that...
Striving for calm, deliberate portraiture, the skill of Mr. Robinson has drown in "Roman Bartholow" a narrative prose-poem, versified in sober lines of meditative characterization. Sophistication echoes through its pages, weary effete, and unenlivening: and yet the characters and plot are such as fit most aptly to his purposes: a modern novel spared. Philosophies and passions are expounded in dialogue that wisely never tries to sound like human talk. He has discovered a way of simplifying subleties that makes them stark and stubbornly incisive; and even his intensest episodes embody wan denial of emotion...
...program for tonight's concert follows: Fair Harvard March, "Our Director", Bigelow Overture to "The Calm of tab Cailf", Bagded Walts, "Imperial", Strauss Ballet Egyptien, Luigini Allegro non troppo Allegretto Andanto sostanuto Andante expressive allegro Serenade, Drigo Three Dances from, "Henry VIII", German Morris Dance Shepherd Dance Torch Dance Hindu Chant from Sadka, Rimsky Korsakow Cortege from "The Queen of Sheba", Gounod