Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public works paid for by Australia's huge borrowings since the War. To humor their grudge, the State Legislature last December scheduled a state-wide referendum on two choices: 1) a Commonwealth convention to revise the Constitution; 2) secession from the Commonwealth. The rest of Australia remained calm at Western Australia's threat to jump off the edge of nowhere. Wartime Premier William Morris Hughes called secession "a crude and futile expedient." The Attorney General told the farmers that the Commonwealth Constitution provided no means by which a state could legally secede. The Commonwealth Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons...
Composer Sowerby's Prairie, like Carl Sandburg's poem which inspired it, aptly describes the hush which enwraps the flat midwestern farmlands, the far-away burr of threshing machines, the climactic glow of a sudden sunset and the grey, momentous calm which follows. A few carping critics were inclined to credit Poet Sandburg with most of the inspiration but the sharpness of Sowerby's musical perceptions, developed now into a unanimously praised skill at orchestration, showed itself long before Chicago's red-headed organist had heard of Poet Sandburg. He was six years old, living...
...were thick as flies "BOO! BOO! BOOOOO!" went a crowd of about 300 assorted Chinese and Communists. Patrolman John Ello took into custody one Lin Naphin, 32, who was clutching a loaded pistol in his overcoat pocket. Smiling politely, Statesman Matsuoka was whisked from the waterfront to the echoing calm of Fifth. Avenue's swank (but bankrupt) Hotel Pierre. There he sat down under a portrait of China's late great Li Hung-chang and awaited the Press...
...have no flag!" cried Son Friedrich Ebert Jr., trying to calm his mother. After huddling & whispering, the chief of the Nazi youths advanced upon Son Ebert...
Belying her name, Zona Gale's literary position is not in stormy latitudes but among calm inland waters. Wiser than her generation, she has taken not the whole U. S. to be her province but only her own small town of Portage, Wis. There, like Candide, she cultivates her literary garden, is content with small, home-grown blooms. Older and gentler than when she wrote Miss Lulu Bett, she still likes to tell a long story briefly, intensively, in quiet words...