Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week opened with stirring appeals to the Deputies by Premier Briand and the leaders of almost every party. One and all they stressed the desperate necessity for calm, dispassionate, concerted action in considering the Cartel finance bill (TIME, Feb. 8), which was before the house. The bill was presented in 101 articles with over 250 amendments already attached.* After an entire week of furious debate, often degenerating into fist fights and hair pulling, a part of one article had been passed amended out of all semblance to its original state, thrown back into the chamber again as utterly impracticable...
...toward his subjects when he and Queen Alexandria drive about Copenhagen. At Stockholm, Queen Victoria of Sweden often amiably looks on while King Gustaf V plays tennis with Swedish army officers, or with almost anyone to whom he happens to have taken a fancy. Therefore, Scandinavian newspapers noted with calm approval last week that when H. R. H. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Skane, recently saw a certain insignificant U. S. sailor on the point of drowning, he doffed his royal shoes and coat, jumped in, rescued the sailor and finally succeeded in keeping the whole affair...
...Farrell, Charleston has a miracle-worker of commerce as well as a commercial miracle. In his thin, ascetic features, in his calm eyes, about which tiny wrinkles have come, in his masterful grey mustache and his silky grey hair, in these they will not see the boy of 16 who on the death of his seafaring father went into a New Haven, Conn., wire mill as a common laborer. But he was alert, had already begun consciously to train his now superb memory, studied night and day, and in 14 months was rated a mechanic; by 21 he was foreman...
...monumental calm which broods ever the White House in season and out has been broken by the official spokesman of the administration. The lesser of President Coolidge's twin personalities announced. Tuesday that the country should not credit the political minded critics of the administration...
...tradition of ruling. . . . Any party which has the Prince as its leader is bound to be moderate and practical, for he it a most temperate and level-headed young man. In the course of a long conversation he never gave expression to an extreme opinion. He was as calm, balanced and judicial as if his country had been a neutral in the great War and had not suffered from a harsh and difficult peace." OSCAR VON DUHN...