Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vividly last week the crew of the Holland America liner Rotterdam, homeward bound from New York, displayed their national temperament. No disturbance broke the calm of the first nine days of the crossing except in the smoking room, where the Dutch Olympic team was en thusiastically breaking training. Rotterdam, the Dutch home port, was paralyzed by a seamen's strike. As the 21-year-old Rotterdam pushed her high prow past England's Bishop Rock, Rotterdam's strikers sent wireless messages to Rotterdam's crew. They were never delivered. Apparently acting under orders from the main...
...outsider knew all that went on within the judges' stand. But any airman could have recognized one calm voice, twangy and slightly stammering, as that of lanky, moose-eared ''Pop'' Cleveland. He is ringmaster, troubleshooter, rules arbiter for Impresario Henderson. Apparently nerveless, he is a genius at soothing down temperamental pilots, settling quarrels, salving wounded vanity. As familiar to race followers as the pylon in front of the grandstand is "Pop's" ungainly figure striding across the field with his colored starting flags tucked under one arm?red for "all clear," white for "go," checkered for "last lap." Usually...
...behind a huge flat-topped desk, flanked by legal aides. Before him, looking small and subdued was "Jimmy" Walker, the first Mayor of New York ever to be summoned to the Capital to answer ouster charges.* To one side sat elderly Samuel Seabury, a faint smile on his wide, calm face. This executive hearing was a climax to his 14 months work as counsel for the legislative committee investigating graft and corruption in Tammany's city. When told that the Mayor got a boisterous public welcome on his arrival, Counsel Seabury remarked: "So did Tweed." Not ten minutes after...
...where she contracts and bulges most. There is no discomfort. Says Dr. Dodek: "The entire apparatus with its tripod support rests on the evenly undulating movements of the abdomen in the intervals between contractions similar to the way in which a moored skiff rests upon the ripples of a calm lake." He finds that women like to watch the jerks of the pen. Above all it tells them when they are about to get a pain, when they must bear down.- The Dodek device-he calls it a hysterograph or womb register-has already proved useful to obstetrics. There...
Anyone who knifes a work of art is judged insane, yet every art critic has a list of art works he would like to knife. On nearly every such list is Jean Francois Millet's The Angelus, a calm brown picture of a peasant and his wife standing at prayer in the middle of a field. An ably painted picture, it is deplored because of its ubiquity on art calendars, school rostrums, candy boxes...