Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the White House scarcely a sound was heard-for it was Thanksgiving Day. In the morning, the President read his newspapers, scanned his mail. Before noon the calm grew more profound, for the President and Mrs. Coolidge together with Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston and Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent had departed for worship at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church,* where Bishop William F. McDowell preached. Upon their return, the five lunched lightly. Then the President napped while the rest of the party went to see Ethel Barrymore in The Constant Wife...
...publicans name. It may be hard to nominate him, but he is our most available man. He is highly qualified for the Presidency and the fact that he is not in sympathy with the 18th Amendment and is a Catholic should not disqualify him. It is my calm, deliberate judgment that Smith would not lose a single Southern State. ... I have no further po litical ambitions, but I expect to take an active part in the move ment to nominate Al Smith...
...Cool slitted eyes. Calm-looking throat. Cold grey pallor...
...tossed aside equally regularly. In 1905 Elihu Root became Secretary of State with a desire to reform the consular service. He discovered that Mr. Carr, then at the head of the Consular bureau, had "a mind stuffed full of ten years' accumulation of calm, well-balanced, orderly ideas for improvement." So Secretary Root and Senator Lodge redrafted the schemes of Mr. Carr and Mr. Jones into a new bill and pushed it through Congress in 1906. By this act the consular service adopted the merit system. In 1915 both the consular and diplomatic services were reorganized and the merit...
President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba and President Jose Serrato of Uruguay maintained an air of Augustan calm last week while their Foreign Ministers quarreled over a sneer. Senor Alfredo Guani, Uruguayan representative in the Assembly of the League of Nations, allegedly launched the sneer by remarking while at Geneva last fall: "Cuba is tied to the U. S. by her Permanent Treaty."* This remark, unheeded by the rest of the world, has been bandied for months by the Cuban and Uruguayan press until, last week, Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with Uruguay, alleging that, "the Cuban national honor...