Word: placidness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the usually placid sea of public opinion the disaster roused a storm of indignation which the Navy Department had to weather the best it could...
...Placid Leader Baldwin did not thereafter greatly bestir himself, last week, except to take delivery of a mammoth "Peace Letter" signed by "128,770 British citizens all above 16 years of age" who stated ominously that they "will hereafter refuse to render war service to any government...
Travel agencies justly emphasized the cultural values of voyage; might well have emphasized its benefits on mental health. Placid days, droning engines, cradling waves, roomy outlook?all these help to soothe troubled, taut spirits...
...Significance rests upon two important counts. When the Atlantic Monthly, once the sedate barouche in which members of Boston's old literary circle sent their gentle brain children out for placid airings, last year whipped up its horses with a $10,000 prize for "the most interesting novel of any kind, sort or description," submitted by any writer, "whether born in London or Indianapolis." Readers looked for some tranquil, mildly effeminate tale, perhaps modeled on those of Edith Wharton. They were surprised on scanning the first installment of Jalna to discover a robust and brawny fiction, crowded with characters...
Most precious of all the letters were the two in which Boswell had asked Margaret Montgomerie to marry him and in which she agreed to do so. Colonel Isham, chattering with excitement, displayed in an alley between boxes of steel, not ebony, the placid sentimentalities of two charming people. In this strange place he read aloud Boswell's "Read this in your own room and think as long as you please. Only let me have a positive answer as I am quite dependent on you. ... I would share a kingdom with you if I had it. . . ." Peggy, who later watched...