Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calm, blue-eyed Playwright Clifford Henshaw Goldsmith is 38, was born in East Aurora, N. Y. where his shirts hung on the same clothesline as Roycrofter Elbert Hubbard's, now lives in a secluded farmhouse near Paoli, Pa. After a tiny role in Lightnin' and a start in cinema cut short when he tumbled down some false stairs and upset three cameras. Goldsmith joined a chautauqua. found himself while pinch-hitting for a humorous health lecturer, became a health lecturer on his own, talked on nutrition before hundreds of high schools. He pieced What a Life together...
...families produce one unhappy intermarriage, one well-known liberal, one feminist, one famous artist, one War victim, one monk. The third generation turns out a talented left-wing artist, an illegitimate-born Communist, an avowed Fascist. Despite this disturbing picture of British family history, Author Bentley takes a calm view of the future: If half of the preceding generation muddled through, reasons one of her characters, why fear the fate of the next...
...flight from the country or from life. . . . Never once has he faltered. Never once has he asked consideration, much less mercy, for himself. With unbroken fortitude he has endured the shattering fall from his high estate and faced the pitiless publicity, the universal stares, the ceaseless interrogation with calm, with fidelity to the duty of the moment and with the knowledge that life can hold no other purpose for him but now and always to labor to repair the wrong which he has done...
Widener Library was stirred from its customary calm yesterday afternoon when two photographers from the Harvard Film Service began to take pictures of two curious birds on exhibition in the central hall...
...cause of this portentous prospect was a dispute as to whether an expired contract guaranteeing no wage reductions should be extended for three months or for one year as the union demanded. Early this week Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, who knows how to remain calm under labor fire, deposited the contending parties in separate hotel rooms and, after seven consecutive hours of shuttling back & forth, the union agreed to call off the "revolution" in exchange for a four-month extension...