Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble has begun again. The soprano and the tenor have had a violent disagreement, and Piccaver has resigned his post at the Vienna Opera. The management is trying frantically to calm the stormy waters, for their opera troupe is sadly deficient in tenors, but Piccaver announces firmly that he is done, that he will come to the U. S., which he has not seen in 15 years, for a concert tour during the approaching season...
Samuel G. Blythe, whose Calm Review of a Calm Man (TIME, Aug. 13) appeared opportunely in The Saturday Evening Post as a tribute to President Harding just before he died, is in a fair way to have his sudden fame extended somewhat beyond the usual nine days...
...huge ZR-1 at Lakehurst, N. J., is fully inflated and will make her trial flight on Sept. '1, probably at night when the air is calm. The ZR-3, a dirigible being built for the Navy by the Zeppelin Company at Friedrichshafen, Germany, is making equally good progress and will fly across the Atlantic in November to be housed likewise at Lakehurst...
...Only a few minutes later the news was in newspaper offices throughout the country. That was journalistic preparedness, not journalistic luck. But what befell Samuel George Blythe and The Saturday Evening Post was decidedly luck. Only a few days before the President died the Post published an article, A Calm Review of a Calm Man, by Mr. Blythe. It was a review of Mr. Harding's career as President, a favorable estimate of his character and achievements. At the time he wrote the article, or even at the time it was sent to press, Mr. Blythe could not possibly have...
...Blythe said in part: "The real defect of the Harding Administration, as it reacts on the people, is that it doesn't make noise enough. It isn't showy enough. It is too calm. . . . This man Harding is neither noisy nor brilliant, in the showy acceptance of that term. He is not loud and declamatory. He is a modest man?too modest, no doubt ?and a calm man, and a man with a philosophy that has not worked out so badly, as will be shown. . . . "How much work does the President do? ... Rudolph Forster has been executive clerk...