Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning of his suicide Ivar Kreuger bought the pistol at a small shop near his apartment. "Mon Dieu, how was I to know?" said the shopkeeper. "He seemed perfectly calm, parfaitement!" Only the Kreuger concierge noticed anything unusual, noticed that when the Match King came home with a package in his hand he did not smile or reply as he always had to the doorman's greeting. Going upstairs, Titan Kreuger wrote three letters in longhand to relatives, loosened his clothes, pulled the trigger...
...always been a tactful, loving wife to a most unusual husband, a devoted mother and a woman of remarkable intellect and social charm. If Fate should place her in the White House. Washington snobs would be forced to admire and respect Alice Murray's unpretentious manner-her calm confidence in" the purity and security of her own background that precludes any need for ostentation...
...World's!" Not new, M. Tardieu merely gave a semblance of creation to the old, calm, logical French argument that only a real International Law, only a real League of Nations and only a real World Court can make sovereign states toe the line of International Decency...
...works tactfully with his opponents, who will take half a loaf rather than none. His heart is soft on all social welfare measures. A good part of his program was bequeathed him by Governor Smith. He has run the State Government without scandal or eruptions, in the calm orderly manner of a good executive. His appointments have been fair, his innovations...
...Alton, high & dry on the mudflats of Hawaii's Pearl Harbor, was the prison home all last week of a nervous and overwrought woman and three calm and comforting men, all held for murder. The prisoners: Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, middle-aged Washington socialite; Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., her young son-in-law, and E. J. Lord and Albert Orrin Jones, naval enlisted men. The charge: they had kidnapped and murdered a Hawaiian named Joe Kahahawai, accused, with four others of mixed blood, of raping young Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie (TIME, Jan. 18). Arrested fortnight...