Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each occasion Their Majesties remained completely calm and undisturbed...
Czech Government officials jittered -though the population stayed calm - when Heinrich Himmler, dread chief of all Nazi police, suddenly appeared in Prague. Reasons given for Herr Himmler's visit were several and varied. Some said he was there to clean up the messy shooting at Kladno of a German policeman; others said that the Nazis were preparing to abolish the protectorate, at least take over its police. Nazis denied both rumors, said Police Chief Himmler was in Prague for "a brief inspection tour." By week's end Himmler was back in Berlin...
...British newspapermen, the Lindberghs found peace. They went freely to the homes of friends, found they could go to London for dinner and the theatre without being mobbed. In Paris, where they moved after living for a time at Illiec, a secluded Breton isle, life was just as calm. At dinner in the Crillon, at the theatre, no one except an occasional American tourist gawked at them. There were no autograph hunters...
Ready to start home, Sarabia climbed into his racer at Washington's Boiling Field early one morning last week, headed into the wind, opened his throttle. The ship soared out over the calm, muddy waters of the Potomac...
...Robert Browning-Walter Savage Landor school. Most of his life was spent in Rome, Corfu, San Remo. His travels through Europe, Asia and Africa look like a map of the Barbarian Invasions. He saw Petra before Doughty, was nearly killed there by the Arabs, muddled through with superb British calm. Fanatics tried to assassinate the author of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat in India, in Turkey. At last Lear settled down in his San Remo villa with an Albanian servant and his cat Foss, "his daily companion for nearly 17 years." There he worked on his illustrations for Tennyson...