Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which filled the room and penetrated the imagination. This man who was to lead a tortured Italy to unity and freedom seemed to have ridden out of the pages of Trevelyan and to have swept the reader back to the riddled summit of the Janiculum. Standing there with the calm courage of a god, miraculously proof to the bullets of the enemy, one could understand why Italy rose to follow this man. His steps were guided by the inevitable fate which raised him above the common run of fears and hesitations hampering the course of ordinary men. The illusion...
...kept an ear tuned for mutterings in the native tongue which he gave no indication of understanding. Having heard all he wanted, last week Federal Agent J. A. Street doffed his disguise, went to one Golney Seymour, 21-year-old tribesman, accused him of the murder. Retaining the traditional calm of his fathers, Apache Seymour confessed that he had started out with Miss Schmerler to the dance, said that when he had offered her affection she had started throwing rocks at him. Then he raped her, stabbed her, choked her, struck her with a stone, left her dead...
...Cambridge there is a tempo, there is a serenity, there is calm accretion of culture and knowledge...
Moving through all this is one remarkable character, a waiter (Edouard La Roche) who is a cross between the Admirable Crichton and a Christian saint. To all emergencies he responds with almost divine calm and good sense, never forgetting his hospitality. As the flames lick up over the roof's parapet he is still offering to bring blankets, wine, hope, dernier confort...
...Unholy Garden (United Artists). Ronald Colman is the cinemactor who exemplifies romantic savoir faire. His admirers are pleased to note that no situation causes him to lose his deliberated calm, his air of graceful self-sufficiency. Colman's qualifications, together with Estelle Taylor's expert impersonation of a lush and crafty siren, comprise the chief virtues of The Unholy Garden. The story is by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, who were unsure whether they were writing comedy or melodrama and did neither vigorously...