Word: calmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawer. Said his colleague: "Open the drawer, you lug." Later the blond's gun-hand shook so violently the gun discharged, the bullet going into the floor. Shouted his colleague, no longer calm: "You heat head, put that gun away before you shoot yourself." Said the blond, calmer now: "Quit picking on me. I'm doing the best I can." Pupil and teacher left arguing, taking $5,000 in a briefcase...
...visitors trooped to the Hotel de Ville for luncheon. Mayor Baker was accused of "hogging the show," of making all the addresses, bossing the itinerary. After the meal there was an open revolt. "Let's settle this thing right here in the city hall." cried one mayor. But calmer counsel prevailed and the mayors adjourned to Claridge's where at a three-hour secret session all jealousies and animosities were threshed. The result was appointment of a soviet of five members to control everything, apportion the speech-making and publicity. Remarked Mayor Baker later: "This party...
From Tirana, Albania's capital, to Teheran, Persia's capital, is at best an arduous trip of nearly 2,000 miles through primitive country. Last week Charles Calmer Hart, lately promoted from U. S. Minister to Albania to be U. S. Minister to Persia, was making this journey. But instead of traveling over long roundabout routes, he was shortcutting from post to post across Soviet Russia. The significance of his trip lay in the fact that he was the first U. S. diplomat to enter Russia officially in a dozen years...