Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extravagant promises the mercy of the Deity. If Christ will deliver them out of their peril, they swear to burn every evening a tall candle before His Mother's shrine; if he will let their darling live, they will erect a church to his glory. The sea grows calm; disease leaves the wracked body. Men smile, and forthwith forget both their anguish and their vows. Not so Oscar E. Konkle, President of the Realty Sureties, Inc., of Manhattan...
...seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island (their coaling station on the way north), the Peary leading the way with MacMillan aboard. The latter discussed with Commander Byrd the likelihood of repairing one of their two disabled planes and making exploration flights over Baffin Island...
...Author Jesse Lynch Williams of Manhattan, onetime (1921) President of the Authors' League, Pulitzer Prize winner (1917, for his play, Why Marry?), novelist and short-story writer of the same kindly school as his fellow Princetonian, Booth Tarkington, and his good friend Julian Street. Mr. Williams, a calm, beetle-browed gentleman who this week turned 54, has not the air of a professional litterateur. Rather does he seem an urbane, drily humorous gentleman of comfortable means and considerable social distinction. During his year's residence at Ann Arbor, he will be afforded ample leisure for his literary pursuits...
According to despatches, ex-Emperor Wilhelm II declared last week that every man is the instrument of God. Continuing, the once All-Highest said: "My whole life and work have been directed by the will of God, and that is why now a holy calm pervades me. The so-called democracy of today means death to the nation. It is an inadequate form of government, and the people within their hearts prefer the monarchy, or one-man rule...
...Hamba," shouted one and "Hamba," cried another-which being translated from the Russsian means "Shame." A foreign mob pressed in from the East one rainy day last week, tossed cattlewise upon 97th St., Manhattan, sprawled upon the upper calm of Fifth Avenue by the Park. "Hamba. Hamba...