Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chosen no more unusual period of the college year in which to see Harvard than the present one. That strange thing called the Reading Period following on the Christmas holidays and foreboding the midyear examinations has made the even tenor of collegiate ways less even and slightly bewildered. The calm fall days have gone and the lethargy of late winter...
Opens, most auspiciously, the political New Year 1928. Not since the World War has a twelvemonth commenced with all nations so substantially at peace, with all major governments so markedly stable. While this unusual global calm prevails, it becomes possible and prudent to scan certain key nations and their great men, asking and answering a crisp, significant question: "Who rules the World...
...however, the incessant civil wars have smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen there subject to Britain, France, Italy and Spain are quiet; and the ancient Ethiopian realm of Abyssinia abides prosperously under...
...Lima, Peru, a large bull looked about him and saw Luis Romero, Peruvian cinemactor, demonstrating his horsemanship. With a loud bellow, the bull made for Luis Romero, flipped him off his horse, pawed and gored him until men arrived who rescued Luis Romero and tried to calm the bull...
When asked what type of man she considered the masculine ideal, the screen celebrity smiled. "You will think I am trying to appear naive when I say that I consider that men like President Coolidge, who is so calm, capable of reflecting intelligently on difficult problems, and able to arrive at logical conclusions: Lindbergh, who is similar to the Crusaders of old, and Will Rogers, who is such a gentleman and actor, are the admirable types of men. Perhaps, I am only cynical when I attempt to visualize a man combining the good qualities of these three...