Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand. For the 21st, the murder of a language teacher from Cyprus, the Yard nabbed a man but lost a conviction on the evidence of ballistics experts. Only one big jewel robbery marred the year. But what made "Boom" Trenchard smile under his military mustache is the strange calm that has fallen over London since Jan. 1 : not one murder, not one big robbery...
...solemn and sometimes sprightly investigation of the spiritual life of a family of shell-backed Bostonians. The Parleys live in a dingily magnificent mansion of Beacon Street. Their farm on the Merrimac River and the possibility that existence may contain more for them than security on a "careful, calm, contented four percent" are two of the things that they remember when the maverick of the family, Sister Christina (Lillian Gish), arrives from the nunnery to spend Christmas. Before Christina arrives, the Parleys are worried mainly because they think she may decide to claim, by their father's will, their...
...DEATH WISH-Elisabeth Sanxay Holding-Dodd, Mead ($2). Long Island society, his neighbors and his rich wife are too much for poor, ponderous Delancey. Had it not been for the calm young guest next door, he might have been convicted of two murders...
With the calm of a great surgeon, which he is, President Dr. Ramon Grau con tinued last week to sign breath-taking decrees in the small hours of the night. Scratch-the Presidential pen dismissed famed Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne, author of the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen...
Public Man. Elmer Thomas won the vantage point where he became the legal sponsor of these drastic acts by his own type of doggedness. His well-barbered white hair, businesslike dress, calm manner, conversational public speeches bear no resemblance to the traditional windblown locks, flapping coat tails, and fiery eloquence of the silver-tongued demagog. It is true that his first political campaign, conducted in his native Indiana when he was still at the unripe age of 19, consisted of 28 stump speeches in support of William ennings Bryan. But he did not choose to imitate Bryan. In 1901, aged...