Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clad in his marshal's uniform, with the baton of his rank in his left hand, the aged Hindenburg, almost 80, passed through the cheering throng, stopping now and then to say a few words to a former comrade-in-arms. He is grim, cool, calm, yet genial enough on occasion. Germans recall a story about their President that exemplifies his peculiar wit: One of his old friends is alleged to have asked...
Entering a Metropolitan subway car last week Henri Decharbogne, famed Paris newspaperman, member of the Legion of Honor, was bumped on the head by a closing door, killed. A great cry of protest against the danger of subway doors went up. "Metro" officials, calm, ignored it; said the doors were modeled on those in use in the U. S. for years...
Statesmen. Among the famed statesmen noted at Geneva: Richard William Alan Onslow, Earl of Onslow, calm and ponderous. Next to him was observed his boss, natty Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Minister...
...could not possibly have touched bottom. This flash of certainty was verified as the ship's sudden list reversed itself, became a sharp roll. Looking overside, Captain Aubert beheld the sea in a cold boil, an unaccountable churning that rolled the France steeply twelve times. Then all was calm. The France steamed on in peace...
...Show, they began to snicker. While it was possible (if unlikely) that famed Charles Evans Hughes had turned dog fancier, it was an inconceivable as well as an impudent coincidence that the dog 'should bear so exact a facial resemblance to his master. Yet there it was, the calm, thoughtful visage, the long, sagacious nose, Herald Tribune readers whispered, "They're as like as two Chinamen...