Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BRAWNYMAN - James Stevens - Knopf ($2.50). The satisfying quality of this autobiogaphical chunk of Americana is that calm matter-of-factness which characterized the same author's chronicle of the great logger, Paul Bunyan. "Appanoose Jimmie" Stevens (changed to Turner in these pages), aged about 35, now lives with his parents in Tacoma, Wash., and, though he contributes successfully to the American Mercury, he has not yet succumbed to the green mists that often steam up from pages of print to obscure a new writer's picture of himself. Appanoose is still at heart the hobo team-hand that...
Secretary of Commerce Hoover grew downright irritated last week at the jugglery of the German-French potash monopoly. His Prospero* calm had left him. He ordered that $100,000 be given to national geological survey and bureau of mines explorers to hunt for potash deposits in Texas...
...Prospero is the chief character of Shakespeare's Tempest. He is a benign gentleman, always unruffled before storm or calm. He has magic powers over the earths, the airs, the waters, over men and beasts. These he controls through his servant Ariel, a sweet-voiced sprite, who often gives him sage advice...
Last week, calm brooded upon confusion. A formula of agreement was discovered. There was drafted, passed, recorded a succinct definition: Armaments are armaments...
...country, are those who have been touched by the post-war fever of military training ardent supporters of steps toward that great peace which you profess to admire? Are the graduates of the R. O. T. C. and the C. M. T. C. the most glorious examples of calm, tolerant internationally minded citizens...