Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi flag with its great swastika. The Reds, as Germans fully expected they would be, were at once attacked by New York policemen. During this Wild West conflict, Captain Leopold Ziegenbein stood aloof and calm on the Bremen's bridge in a uniform of cool white duck. Said he as New York ambulances clanged away with dozens of injured and his ship prepared to sail for Germany: "We don't know what the future has in store for us. We don't know what is going to happen next...
...taken his New Deal seriously enough to ask him to submit it in draft form and to keep this draft secret while the Cabinet considers it. Last week Mr. Lloyd George in his note demanded back his New Deal with full permission to publish it. For answer big, calm English Baldwin crossed the House, sat down on an opposition bench beside the excited little Welshman and asked him to continue to wait...
...theme the Peasant's Economic Struggle, showing in broad cartoon masses the peasant, his sad wife and child, his grain and his disastrous relations with the middlemen. Overhead O'Higgins has put a massive design of factories, cannon, two soldiers fighting to the death under the calm gaze of a fat overlord. Legend: "Against Imperialistic...
...fights, won 17 of them by knockouts, four by decision. Training for his bout with Carnera, he fought 75 rounds against six sparring partners, knocked each of them out at least twice with oversized training gloves. Salient feature of Joe Louis' character is his almost psychopathic calm. He sleeps twelve hours every night, often takes a day-time nap as well. He talks rarely and in monosyllables. When he arrived in Manhattan, he was greeted by an army of reporters to whom he gave a characteristic opinion of New York: "Don't see anything unusual about anything here...
...usually calm days of Wimbledon's first week, the Borotra-Poulain uproar was by far the most disturbing circumstance. In the grandstands, enlarged this year, bigger crowds than ever before -more than 25,000 every afternoon- watched the matches. They saw Borotra indicate that he might not have been of much use to France's Davis Cup team in any case by losing, after five hard sets, to Czechoslovakian Roderick Menzel. In the most startling upset of the week, Wilmer Allison lost to Australia's unorthodox Vivian McGrath in the first round. After seven days of play...