Word: placide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...placid, prudent, elderly English gentleman...
...hand the placid, prudent, elderly English gentleman [Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford] with his 20,000 men spread around the beaches, the front lines sitting on the tops of shallow trenches, smoking and cooking, with here and there an occasional rifle shot, others bathing by hundreds in the bright blue bay where, disturbed hardly by a single shell, floated the great ships of the war; on the other the skillful German [General Liman von Sanders] stamping with impatience for the arrival of his divisions, expecting with every hour to see his scanty covering forces brushed aside, while the furious Kemal...
Married. James Waterman Wise, 20, only son of Rabbi and Mrs. Wise, to Miss Louise Joan Hahn, of Manhattan, at Lake Placid...
...bombshell was exploded under the placid forms of Sir Horace Rumbold and General Pelle, British and French representatives at Lausanne, when Ismet Pasha announced that concessions prior to 1914, which he had consented to confirm in the Concessions Protocol, invaded the Chester concessions, and that his agreement must be reconsidered...
...Whispering. Three hundred and seventy-nine pages devoted almost exclusively to the rise and dedevelopment of a middle-aged love affair, sans fireworks or asterisks, between a retired Indian administrator and a gentle and genteel widow, may seem to those who prefer excitement in their reading a little too placid. A safe book to give an old-fashioned aunt...