Word: placidness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the placid landscapes in which he, had spent most of his life had begun to vex him a little; perhaps their dreaming beauty was the very irritant that made him take fire at seeing, as if for the first time, the walls and towers, monuments of a fierce physical necessity, that industrial life was evolving here. The City of New York spoke its rocky sermon to him and he, better than any other etcher of this time, understood what it was saying. "When you go out on the ferry to Staten Island," he wrote, "there is one moment...
Compared to the abruptly startling plays which Broadway sees every month and even compared to his earlier successes, Mr. Kelly's current offering must seem a placid piece. It neither makes a bid for popularity with decollete scenes nor hammers its way into the consciousness by bizarre and arresting effects. With considerable maturity, Mr. Kelly etches his lines somewhat in the Pinero manner. If New York does not like it... But New York does. And eventually Boston...
...nobles grouped themselves about the octagonal throne, King Pracha Tipok, a slim jolly little man, approached with his Queen, whose ample person and wide, placid smile won her much good will when they visited the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924) as Prince and Princess...
...exuberance of Bacchic indulgence, nor the incessant drumming and tapping of a dance. There is one vigorous thunder-clap, worked by unseen soles upon the floor; and that is all. It ascends to the ceiling; worn faces twist half-concernedly about; the sacred door-keepers smile in placid obeisance to a higher will; the sound is crushed, and then gone...
During the Christmas holidays the Williams ice team captured two games, tied one, and lost one in a four game series with the Blue at Lake Placid. Following four consecutive days of play the Purple team swamped the Apawamis Club in New York by a 7 to 0 count, and the next night dropped a close decision to the Queen's College six by a 4 to 3 score. This Canadian team later defeated the Princetonians 4 to 3 and have been ranked nearly on a par with the Varsity skaters who won every game on their Boston invasion...