Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a striking difference between the calm announcement of a Bowdoin Concert on March 21, 1943 or the smoothly run rehearsals of twice a week with the report of the meeting of March 30, 1857: "Met, practiced, liquored, and adjourned...
Propaganda's Problems. Elmer Davis, sitting on the smoking roof, was calm as ever. For the Roosevelt cartoons, whose art was more reprehensible than their message, Davis had a commonsensible explanation: the President "symbolizes the United States, both as a powerful nation and as a land of liberty and democracy. This fact is a national asset. . . . A Government information agency would be stupid not to capitalize...
...felt quite right since that last big exam." are planning to board the New York train at one o'clock Saturday, in order to got a good rest. Apparently the prospect of a weekend in Manhattan, compared with the hustle and bustle of the School and Boston itself, seems calm in retrospect. Jim Carty points out just how hectic things are getting to be here, when he tells us that now he can scarcely run through a second chorus in the morning before (by popular request) he must vacate the shower to the next...
Said Franklin Roosevelt: "I think we should be prepared for the fact that Tunisia will cost us heavily in casualties. Yes, we must face that fact now, with the same calm courage as our men are facing it on the battlefield itself...
...dire backstage figures who were out to get him and, when President Woods telephoned him at his Miami Beach hotel, he sputtered: "How about using your network to say that I think the time has come when the Blue Network should be taken over by the people?" Woods kept calm and Winchell continued: "I intend to remain as free as the air, not as free as the air waves. . . . You might be pictured in years to come as a sort of Bluenose of the free...