Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile calm professionals of the British Admiralty and Foreign Office, without even bothering vacationing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, applied quiet screws to Madrid. Although His Majesty's Government have always been able to interpret the laws of blockade to give the Royal Navy freedom of action, they last week easily overwhelmed Spanish Premier Jose Giral, a pharmacist by profession, with awful reasons why it would be not only against international law but positively wicked for Spanish warboats to interfere with British ships on the high seas. At week's end, Premier Giral gave the fullest assurances that British...
...Amadeus Mozart, Salzburg in the Austrian Alps has held annual summer music festivals since the end of the War. Before recent years, this baroque little city attracted middle-sized international audiences who enjoyed its competent performances of plays and operas with German and Viennese casts, its remote picturesqueness, its calm. By last week, when it was in the midst of another summer season, noisy Salzburg had become definitely the place to go for thousands of U. S. and European tourists of high & low degree...
...Brooks finds a charming, almost saintly spirit, a great figure, if not always a great poet. Never roused to malice even after his fame had become worldwide, he befriended cranks and freaks, longed wearily for a snowstorm that would keep celebrity-hunters away from his door. "A fathomless calm of innocent goodness brooded in the air that spread with Longfellow's poems over the world." Ten thousand copies of The Courtship of Miles Standish were sold in London in a single day, and 24 English publishers brought out Longfellow's work in competition. Simple, sweet...
...Lowell's writing and life Mr. Brooks finds the beginnings of the self-conscious cleverness that was foreign to the old New England tradition and that was soon to reach its highest expression in the work of Henry James. He sees Lowell as lacking the calm integrity of his great predecessors as well as their depth of feeling, makes a better case against him. and indirectly against Henry James, than he made in The Pilgrimage of Henry James...
...remarkable feature of the volume was that Edith Sitwell should have written it. The oldest member of an industrious literary family that includes Osbert (Before the Bombardment, Miracle on Sinai) and Sacheverell (Doctor Donne and Gargantua, All Slimmer in a Day), she has previously been best known for her calm, highbrow aloofness, her volumes of verse, her idiosyncratic individualism, her interest in famed British eccentrics, her biography of Alexander Pope. Now 49, she is tall (over 6 ft.), blonde, unmarried, with straight classic features. Readers who know her previous books will be surprised at the interest in social conditions revealed...