Word: calms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese press devoted less space to events in China last week than to the minutes of the Imperial Diet. The British press of London and Toronto was calm and factual. But the newspapers of the U. S. grossly sensationalized the news. To catch the pennies that buy papers, cartoonists for the Chicago Tribune and many another great daily splashed out Chinamen in pigtails* being egged on to clash with U. S. marines by horrifically bearded Bolsheviki. Still more blatant were U. S. headlines. One example...
...classic calm of Harvard Yard was disturbed last night for the first time in the present decade by the blended voices of over a hundred singing seniors. Formerly one of the University's most cherished traditions, the melodies of strolling Senior bands on Spring nights ceased with the advent of the Great War and were allowed by succeeding class to linger unnoticed among the shades of the past...
...gong rings; Mike staggers to his corner, weary, bleeding. Through the ropes springs Mike's marcelled second with water-bucket, sponge, bottle, towel. Mike rests for a short minute while motherly hands wash red from his eyes and mouth, fan his wilting torso. Mike hears calm, sage advice delivered in a motherly tone. Again the gong rings and Mike's second, agile in spite of skirts, leaps back through the ropes. Mike, cheered, comforted, charges forth to battle...
...Calm Louisianians, oddly, get themselves mixed up in it too. There are hundreds of parties, many of which are not noted by the society column of the Times-Picayune...
Such is the atmosphere that, like grey mist, informs two of this book's* three parts. In such a mist events of the most personal nature loom up with unwonted significance. It is not so thick as to shroud details; these are handled gently but with such calm precision that close scrutiny will reveal no blurred edges. Fastrade von de Warthe walks in the great park, brooding, but her figure is seen clearly through the trees. Dietz von Egloff, with unrest in his soul, rides his black stallion over the estates when the countryside is abed, but the effect...