Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the fish are running, the "brownies" wade into the shallows, bash the fish with their paws. When the churned water becomes calm they stick their snoots in the water, extract their fish...
...problems. There are times when these problems loom ominous and their solution difficult. Yet we would be of little courage if in our concerns we had less faith than Lincoln had in his far greater task. . . . If only our leadership had always been tempered by the moderation and calm vision of Lincoln...
Parried Conservative Walker: "It has been reserved for the so-called Modernists to be irritated at any resemblance to anything that has calm, and to adore excess in every direction, to be shapeless, crude, eliminated in detail to nothingness, explosive in detail to chaos . . . creating sensation with the slapstick and the bludgeon. Modernism may change the methods of architecture, but when it does it will necessarily have in it traditions of sound previous methods, with which at present it is in conflict ... at times infantile and often callow. . . . Occasionally it reaches a serious adult stage. Therefore Hope is struggling...
...methods of seduction that are listed, the familiar "Feel My Muscle" approach, the plaintive. "An Ugly Old Thing Like Me" style, and the moss-backed "Everybody Does It" argument illustrate sufficient diversity to command the tyro's respect. The author handles these three outline cases with a facile calm surpassing the pure human. In returning the book to one's desk after the three hours it takes to read it from cover to cover, the first reaction should be a feeling of gratitude to Miss Hahn. She has removed the false whiskers from a topic of major interest, and revealed...
...oldtime (1893-1918) musical comedy actress (Floradora), onetime wife of Actor Guy Bates Post; and her friend and hostess, Mrs. Doris Murray Palmer, 32; in a double shooting; at Laguna Beach, Calif. Police thought Mrs. Post shot Mrs. Palmer after a quarrel, then spent two hours shopping, trying to calm herself before she returned to the scene of murder, shot herself...