Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first heat of his love for Josephine, Napoleon wrote: "I am waiting for you. I am wholly filled with you. Sweet, incomparable Josephine ... I find calm when I give myself up to my passion, that on your lips, at your heart, I may fan the flames which burn...
...with a slave's psychology became an Honorable, eligible for the highest office in the land, certain to have as fine a funeral as that enjoyed by a great rascal to whose pompous obituaries he had once listened in dismay? What if this story were written by a calm, an almost lugubrious satirist, without any ranting; by a master of adroit prose? Might people not exclaim about such a book...
Ingratiating Tail. When news of this threatening reaction in China to Britain's mobilization reached London, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain tried to calm the Chinese by issuing a most conciliatory statement. He said that Britain is now ready to change the whole status of foreigners in China as follows: 1) Remodeling of the system ("extraterritoriality") whereby foreign malefactors in China have been tried before consular courts of their own nation. Britain now proposes that suits brought by Britons in China shall be tried by the Chinese courts; and suits brought against Britons shall be tried under Chinese...
Finally madcap Chancellor Churchill described Signer Mussolini in unique terms: "I could not help being charmed by his gentle, simple bearing and his calm, detached poise...
...ready for the great moment. Outwardly calm but inwardly trembling with the significance of the act the moneyed jester lifts the receiver from the hook...