Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calm the Negroes' fears, Her Majesty's Colonial Secretary, Oliver Lyttelton, insisted that the federation plan make provision for 1) a six-man native-affairs board with the right to be consulted on all legislation affecting African interests; 2) Negro representation in the federal parliament. Sir Godfrey Huggins assured the conference that in Southern Rhodesia black Africans will have "a voice in the election of white Africans as well as in the election of those whom chance has made of their own color; that, as the years roll by, and the black electorate swells and becomes educated...
Even so, there is never a calm moment on the stage, nor many dull ones in the audience. To be sure, The Bat does no one thing very well-it never really horrifies, or mystifies, or amuses; there is profusion rather than skill, pandemonium rather than tension. But since, even in 1920, The Bat aimed at the funnybone as well as the spine, it would perhaps be a mistake to concentrate on one or the other now. What it could use is better acting: only Lucile Watson as the imperious spinster, and Zasu Pitts at moments as the maid...
...somewhat stooped, perhaps from getting his 6-ft. frame in & out of standard cars. He never stands when he can sit, makes a move only when he has to, and then in leisurely motion. He has never been known to show excitement, is such a picture of unruffled calm that his wife Agnes sometimes refers to him as "the Sphinx." Says Vance placidly: "My blood pressure is normal, and I expect to live to a ripe old age. You don't have to be excited to be earnest...
...moved up fast because of his ability to grasp complicated situations, make calm, correct decisions and stick to them under pressure. Once, Studebaker's Treasurer Albert Russel Erskine wanted to install a new accounting system in EMF; Vance objected that it wouldn't work. He half expected to be fired. Instead, when Erskine became president, he made Vance assistant treasurer. Vance moved to South Bend in 1919, slowly worked up every rung of the Studebaker ladder. By the time depression struck, he was production vice president and a director, while Paul Hoffman, now president of the Ford Foundation...
...Keep as calm as a County Judge...