Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occupied with looking everywhere and with everybody for a settlement, which, however, demands loyalty, reciprocity and parallel action.'' Thus indirectly he tossed on Signer Mussolini the blame for the impasse of the friendship talks. "However." continued the Premier, "France will persist in proving her close union, her calm self-possession. She can do it because she is strong. Her will for peace is her first guarantee, her strength is her supreme guarantee. No matter what the circumstances, France is fully capable of assuring the inviolability of her frontiers and her empire by herself." As if to add punch...
...Nazi spokesman, Deputy Ernst Kundt, promptly bellowed: "We will keep calm as long as is humanly possible but when we lose our calm the world will know it is your fault...
Hazard No. 3, apparently the least troublesome of the lot, was the one that caused calm Secretary Hull to speak his mind more briskly than usual. In the Washington Merry-Go-Round (circ. 13,500,000) last week appeared a story to the effect that Secretary Hull and his "career boys" had been violating the neutrality law by allowing shipments of arms to Germany. Reason: The Neutrality Act prohibits arms shipments "in violation of a treaty" and the 1921 peace treaty specifically prohibits "importation into Germany of arms, munitions and war materials." That day, Columnist Drew Pearson, co-author...
...Sabbath calm at turreted Windsor Castle, where King George, Queen Elizabeth and their daughters were spending the weekend, was shattered last week as the castle was "bombed" in a mock air-raid. No airplanes flecked the sky and the Royal Family strolled about the grounds as the "bombs" went off around them. The "bombs": nothing more than mighty firecrackers. The only damage: a window in the Royal Mews which fell clattering to the ground as a "bomb" went off too close. Windsor volunteers, organized in decontamination and first-aid squads, raced over the grounds aiding the fake "victims." All this...
...York hope to land one of the 20-odd jobs now held by women reporters on the eight big dailies. Education and social work look like the best bets to him. Department-store selling he puts at the bottom of the list, because he has seen more usually calm women "knock their nervous systems to hell" in that than in any other job. Giving the little girls credit for being able to take care of themselves, and comparing their possible salaries with New York living costs, Author Leaf tries to show them what they will be up against, rather than...