Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Frances Wentworth revealed the calm realism of John Singleton Copley (1737-1815), an apt painter of the gentlefolk whose silks and satins rustled primly through the streets of pre-Revolutionary Boston. His Brass Crosby was technically more assured, exemplified his work as an official painter of important London figures. Not hanging was his famed portrait of the Knatchbull family which took seven years to finish because Mr. Knatchbull caused repeated repaintings by remarrying, begetting more and more children. American-born Benjamin West (1738-1820) who lived in London and was one of his generation's most famed painters...
...even such grave threats to his country's serenity President Masaryk does not allow to disturb the calm tenor of his daily life. Maintaining the burning interest in all varieties of subjects which has caused him to write books on everything from Hypnotism and Suicide to Marxism and the problem of small European nations, he still reads voluminously in four languages. He loves a brisk canter on horseback, or a romp with his small grandsons, children of Charles Revilliod, who only a few years ago used to play naked as jays in the gardens of the presidential summer palace...
Knowing what was about to be said in the House of Commons last week Premier James Ramsay MacDonald climbed into an airplane to hide his idealistic head in the Scottish calm of Lossiemouth. When he had safely gone two of Britain's most important statesmen rose, the first to abandon China to her fate, the second to admit that Britain is preparing...
...last night took it upon themselves to wander about on Mill and Plympton Streets until under the magic efficiency of Colonel Charles R. (Break-it-up) Apted '06, of his majesty's forces a large portion of the interest left the group, and as heads subsided within the windows calm of a sort was once again restored to the district...
...awful calm which followed hard upon the sound of war the nations met at Paris to preserve forever the peace which four years of strife had taught them to cherish and to bring among the people of the earth a new harmony. One man, above the others, sought alone to rekindle those lights which Lord Grey had seen going out all over Europe in the dread spring of 1914. He was an honest, earnest man who by his teachings and his phrases had taught men to believe that they could rule themselves and that nations could lie down together...