Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said: "Mr. Lewis had a full supply of impudence with him." If President Roosevelt had been embarrassed by John Lewis' demand that his automobile union be accorded the right to speak for all General Motors workers, he had reason to be even more embarrassed by Mr. Lewis' calm assumption of the right to speak for all Labor. Overshadowed in the news though they had been by the C. I. O. chieftain and his 1,400,000 men, American Federation of Labor leaders still represented 2,000,000 unionists, wielded a Congressional influence which Franklin Roosevelt had no desire...
Straight went Trotsky to seek famed Lenin who then lived in London, writing in the Reading Room of the British Museum the revolutionary tracts which were to alter the world. Trotsky, always impatient, rushed immediately to Lenin's house and routed him out just before dawn. The majestically calm genius of Lenin and the excited, flashing genius of Trotsky led then and there to a long, foggy, disputatious walk in the vicinity of Westminster Abbey...
...adage is true that one must go abroad to hear news of home. Stories of big week-ends drift back slowly; and viewed from the calm comfort of sobriety, incidents which were heartbreakingly disappointing are not without their tinges of humour...
...admirably British as their tightly rolled umbrellas, a brave little group of seven M. P.'s of assorted British parties arrived in Madrid last week. After calm inspection of the scene of carnage they radioed home: "We make no comment upon the military situation, but a city of a million inhabitants is being subjected to attack from the ground and from the air. . . . Starvation is at work and epidemic seems inevitable. . . . We doubt if the magnitude of the appalling catastrophe is fully understood...
Blindness handicapped her last years but she bore this affliction, not with pity-seeking sorrow nor with despairing indignation, but rather with a calm and philosophical acceptance. She accepted reality bravely. "I dislike making a fuss," she often asserted...