Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feeling of calm assurance and a supreme confidence in the ultimate success of their experiment is the dominant note expressed by the Russian people at the present time," declared Mr. Paxton Hibben, journalist and student of government, in addressing the members of the Liberal Club yesterday afternoon. The speaker who returned two months ago from a long stay in the Slavic country, has observed the progress of the Soviet government from the late days of the Revolution, and is one of the most accurately informed of the foreigners who have witnessed the events leading up to the establishment...
...Chief of Police Nadossy of Budapest. He too broke down, wept, confessed to having protected the counterfeiters from police molestation. Recovering his usual calm, he dictated his resignation to the many clubs to which he belonged: "I must sever my connections with my friends. I am lost...
...available material of historic importance and human interest. The correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, friendly, charming, and thoughtful letters written years after their respective presidencies, when they had retired from public life and were watching the changes in the world and the new nation with detached philosophic calm is a very entertaining book. Another book of letters, by Edgar Allan Poe is an important addition to American literary biography...
Roused to fury, dapper Newton Diehl Baker, onetime Secretary of War, now a Cleveland lawyer and chief counsel for the merger proponents, snapped to his feet as soon as proceedings permitted, keen eyes sparkling, clipping words contrary to his usually calm setting forth of arguments as purely intellectual concepts, refuted charges and implications, recalled that "Desdemona's handkerchief in hands other than her own became a wanton's gift to her paramour in the eyes of her suspicious lord...
...keep up your reputation for giving information in short paragraphs, you failed to mention that this is the same Coolidge who on July 19 assured the newspapers at Swampscott that he "has determined to prevent a coal strike." The strike came, as we all know, and "the little calm, cool man" had the same remedy as usual to suggest, "nothing." And you failed to mention that...