Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jury was being called to pass upon the validity of Miss Britton's claims against President Harding. After the first day Elizabeth Ann was sent out of the court room. Later Judge Killits barred the public and the press lest the evidence "corrupt public morals." Miss Britton, calm and demure, wearing a white blouse, brown skirt and caracul coat, sat very still while Grant Mouser, defense attorney, branded her tale as false and read chapter after chapter from the two books to prove it. Once Miss Britton passed a handkerchief over her face when Lawyer Mouser, his grey hair...
...Matthiessen will speak at 10 o'clock in Harvard 6--not Harvard 26 as was previously given forth. Also it was pointed out, by one of those cavilling materialists who blot the world, that the Vagabond at one point said the lecture was "today" and at another with equal calm stated that it was to be "tomorrow." He could make adequate rebuttal, but he won't. Did not Keats write of "Stout Cortez?" Are you not answered, oh ye of little faith? And anyway, it is part and parcel of the nuance, the devil may care, the grand elan that...
...obligation limit of 14 years, and to make easier the elimination of minds not fit for the advanced work of the university, it is a wholesome movement. But its danger, too, is the inrush of the multitude which no man can handle, at least upon the high lands of calm thought and effective intellectual training...
Leader Hitler remained calm. Presenting standards to his followers he had said: "These will be the last new flags before the Nazis gain power in Germany. If the members of the present government want to maintain law and order, they must yield their place to those who alone have the will and ability to do so." Followers of Fascist Adolf announced that he was about to leave Germany for a tour of Italy, France, Britain...
Spanish Reaction. The peseta held steady on news of disestablishment, rising fractionally from 11.06 to 11.12 to the dollar in Madrid. Riots between Catholics and anti-Catholics occurred at Barcelona and Valladolid but Spain as a whole remained calm. "In my opinion," declared President Azana immediately after taking office, "Spain has ceased to be a Roman Catholic country...