Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eden, so that France could proceed to make her plans. Next day French Ambassador Charles Corbin called at the British Foreign Office for the promised papers, discovered that the British Admiralty had them and by secret agreement with Germany refused to let France have copies. In efforts to calm M. Corbin he was told of an "ancient statute" under which if the higher Admiralty officials feel the Government is endangering Britain's Naval security it becomes their "right and duty" to endanger it still further by resigning in a body. The mere threat of such an Admiralty strike...
...came in the sixth. Bland, graceful, incorrigibly calm, Louis stalked Carnera across the ring, drove a right to his jaw. Carnera fell, dragged himself up, crashed down again, with another right to the jaw. Louis, an amazingly motionless figure, outlined against the ring lights, leaned on the ropes for a moment. When Carnera was on his feet again, Louis moved in, landed a crashing left. As Carnera got up for the third time, he had just presence of mind enough left to turn toward the referee before Louis had time to hit him again. Referee Arthur Donovan stepped between...
Last week, still looking a little surprised, Daniel Shaw appeared at the trial of dark, thin-lipped, high-cheek-boned Lois Thompson, 18, charged with assault with intent to kill. Calm as her Cherokee ancestors, Lois Thompson told her story. Last winter she had refused Daniel Shaw a dance date. Shortly thereafter came the first of a series of extortion notes, threatening her with death unless she handed over $3,000. Daniel Shaw was the gang's agent. On the afternoon of March 27 he had set out to kidnap or kill her. She had decided to kill...
...them in," said the President to his personal secretary. "They've come a long ways. I'll be glad to meet them." Obediently the secretary stood aside until the room was filled, then stepped down to close the door. He did not notice a calm, boyish-looking man who slipped past him, his right hand bandaged in a handkerchief. Out of the handkerchief spat two bullets. President McKinley slumped on the arm of an aide. Instantly the young secretary was at his side. "My wife," murmured the wounded President, "be careful, Cortelyou, how you tell...
Comprising a cloistered collection of crotchety individualists who mortally dread insecurity, the normal U. S. campus resembles an inactive volcano. Beneath its outward calm there rumble, seethe and surge perpetual gratings of opinion, ripples of backbiting and intrigue, tides of hate and fear. With fortunate exceptions the instructor fears and resents the department head, who fears and resents the dean, who fears and resents the president, who fears and resents the trustees. Most pedagogs work off their passions in private talk, present smiling exteriors to superiors. But occasionally one stiffens his spine, talks back or speaks out in defiance...