Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This neutral U. S. correspondents eyewitnessed. Dashing about in motorcars, they verified that only in the western frontier sector of the Sudeten German area had there been bloodshed. The north, east and south were calm "with business as usual," but in the west 46 had been killed by Wednesday night and savage acts were verified. Citizens of Habersberg gave eyewitness testimony that on Tuesday fully-armed Sudeten Nazis had besieged the local commandant and his gendarmes for three hours. When the commandant surrendered and emerged, they said, Nazis closed in around him, beat and kicked the commandant to death...
...aged observation on contemporary youth, Bricks Without Straw belongs in a category with Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents, Howard Spring's My Son, My Son! Compared with the jaundiced eyes of Lewis or the rheumy ones of Howard Spring, Author Norris' eyes seem cool-sighted. His calm view comes partly of his studied concern always to see both sides of Problems: partly, it may be due to the fact that the Norrises have brought up several nephews and nieces, kept open house for a dozen others who swarm uninhibited over the Norris ranch at the foot...
...York, takes his summer ease. George MacDonald, rich Catholic layman, papal marquis, and friend of the Cardinal, gave St. Josephs a $5.000 pavilion on Lake St. Dominic. In that pavilion last week, Marquis MacDonald, Cardinal Hayes, three bishops, many a monsignor, priest and nun did honor to calm-faced Mother Polycarpa, 68. who has managed St. Josephs for 25 years as Mother Superior of the local Dominican community. It was the 50th anniversary of Mother Polycarpa's profession as a nun. So throughout the day, as Dominicans do on their jubilees, she wore what Dominicans call a "golden crown...
Liable to life imprisonment (Maine's maximum murder penalty) if convicted, Defendant Carroll sat calm, tight-lipped in court. His lawyers, presumably hoping to prove that Accuser Dwyer is a pathological liar, planned to call 62 witnesses. Among them: Barbara Carroll...
...international developments ; detailed exposés of economic, religious, racial repression, written by reporters who knew their stories would get into print. Most spectacular example of his editorial discretion was his iron refusal to accept the news of the Armistice that turned out to be false. Bovard was always calm, never lost control of his emotions. Once his star rewrite man got a big story just before the deadline, became so nervous that his fingers froze. Bovard walked over to his typewriter and remarked: "Take your time, old fellow, you've got two minutes...