Word: calms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such moments policemen should be calm. One of the Pons policemen, said to be a relative of Emile Combes, lost his head utterly. Drawing his revolver he trained it on the clerical iconoclast with the sledge hammer, pulled trigger, shot the youth dead. Cooler policemen rounded up the tattered mob men and then discovered to their horror that they were disguised Royalist followers of famed Leon Daudet, son of the great novelist Alphonse Daudet, stubborn and wrongheaded champion of Roman Catholicism and the Royal House of France. The Pope has excommunicated Leon Daudet and his followers (TIME, April 9). Their...
...expecting that colossal help. It is a donation to that country that my compatriots will never forget. I can see their mouths water - literally speaking, I've been hungry - when they read in big head lines that it was going to be distributed to apease their hunger and calm their anxiety. Now you think of their embarrassment when going to ask for a little food they are bruskely, insolently turned away. To substantiate the above I have in front of me a letter from my sister - one of the storms victims - which I will translate in part: "This hurricane...
...days later, the Count Zeppelin took 82 people on a longer trip, 620 miles, over southern Germany and Switzerland. She performed so splendidly that the flight was as lazy and as delightful as an afternoon on an ocean liner in calm weather. Yet, at one time, she stepped up her speed to 81 m.p.h. Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Wine, ham and eggs, etc., were served above Freiburg, Baden-Baden and Constance. But there was NO SMOKING, for fire is the arch enemy...
...been besmirched (TIME, Sept. 3). A youth and a girl had confessed that she was the "master mind" of a group of Roman Catholics who finally persuaded a fanatic to assassinate President-elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30). In the face of such testimony Mother Superior Concepcion remained calm and demanded to be faced by her accusers last week...
...horror of the jungle haunts the fevered dreams Bonsel records, but he tells of waking hours filled with the serene beauty of India and the calm philosophy of its lowliest inhabitant...