Word: placid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House when southern Democrats were shouting: "Tell me, if the hoisting of the Black Republican flag . . . by a Frenchman's bastard, while the arms of civil war are already clashing [in Kansas], is not to be deemed an overt act and declaration of war?" So, placid Fillmore of the Whig party took enough votes away from Frémont to give the election to portly, blundering Buchanan of the Democrats...
...Bonney, a country clergyman, moves from the humble but well-beloved village of Morning Sun to a college town so that his children may have the advantage of college education. When this has had its effect, redheaded, eccentric Warren is a well-tamed professor; Sarah is a kind, sensible, placid young spinster; Wilma is married and faraway; Wilfred, who had especially liked rabbits or other animals, is dead in France. Wise Mrs. Bonney is dead too, and foolish, likable Mr. Bonney has inexplicably taken himself another wife. This humble, quiet homily, neither gay nor tragic, has a brown plainness...
...placid, palm-fretted harbor where the Maine was blown up, guarded by hoary Morro Castle, which was begun in 1587 by Felipe II of Spain as protection against Sir Francis Drake and his marauding ilk. Perhaps someone on the Texas could point out the stone chute in the seaward wall where executed prisoners used to be slid to the sharks...
...Baby. Beatrice Lillie is reliably considered the funniest woman on the stage; although there is many a funny woman on the stage?and off it. Miss Lillie* gained reputation several years ago when she suddenly burst upon a placid metropolis in Chariot's Revue. She sang serious patriotic songs in a gravely irreverent manner. She did many unusual things with her eyes, voice, hands and strange, straight face which sometimes re minds one of Buster Keaton at his best. She played another Chariot show, and ever since some one has been trying to star her in a musical show...
...pioneer woman selected was not the ugly one executed by Mahonri Young; it was not the demure one executed by Jo Davidson; it was not the brawny one of James Earle Fraser, nor the placid one of Arthur Lee, nor the fragile one of F. Lynn Jenkins. Nor was it Maurice Sterne's, Hermon A. MacNeil's, Alexander Stirling Calder's, although these artists too were among those who made models for the competition...