Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days, nobody could think of anything except the Experts' Plan or of anybody except Sir Josiah. Then, up spoke John W. O'Leary, President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, in an even, calm voice that dissipated the prevalent pessimism. The substance of his speech was that the only cure for the ills of the world was adhesion to the sanctity of contracts. He reminded his audience that the U. S. Government had been carrying the interest on billions of dollars owing to the American people, that Britain had made enormous contribution by recognizing her liabilities...
...solid front in Morocco. He said that the Government could not take the initiative in negotiating peace, because such a move would be construed by the enemy as weakness. He then read from the Communist newspaper L'Humanité an article. "Treason" yelled the Right Deputies. "Be calm," rejoined the Premier, and continued reading...
...moral of these three little fables, selected at random from a large number, is distressingly clear. Cambridge is not, in the summer time, a center of scholarly reflection and philosophic calm. It is on the contrary a barren desert, a dry waste in which there is no life but the feeble twittering of the summer school. And the reason for it all is that the average overworked professor, far from remaining to pursue his researches, follows as rapidly as he can the line of fastest departure for the seashore and the woods--precisely, in fact, like the average overworked undergraduate...
...calm, bearded gentleman who sat in the State Department, as well as his successor, the lean worried-looking little man; the cadaverous, fatigued-looking man who sits in the Treasury Department; the plump little man who guides the Department of Commerce-they have from time to time reached out with a long stick and gently prodded Europe. The prodding was, on the whole, very gentle, for they were gentlemen and the nations they were prodding had been our late allies. They did not wish us to appear dunners...
...where his home and large factories now are. Outside "the old man's" office, a placard advises visitors that he is so busy that he finds it "impossible to grant any personal interviews." Within, an absorbed, absentminded, gracious, tireless, cheerful individual carries on his work, with the calm open-mindedness of a scientist, from one day to the next of his 79th year. Well might his motto be the one which is the heritage of the Princes of Wales-"Ich dien" (I serve...