Word: placidness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reject the tycoons' advice. Last week, after a month of spirited bickering among European chancellories, it was decided to hold a "Political Reparations Conference" in mid-August at The Hague. The immaculate, aristocratic capital of Queen Wilhelmina's tidy Netherlands would provide, it was felt, an ideally placid atmosphere. Brussels, although favored in London and Paris as the seat for the conference, was ruled out after strenuous protests were received from Berlin. The Germans claimed that Belgium is "still surcharged with war hatred...
...understand that a resignation has been extorted from Lord Lloyd?" boomed aggressive Winston Churchill, M. P., lately Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, now among the political "outs." For weeks it has been evident that "Winnie" Churchill hopes to crowd out placid Stanley Baldwin -as leader of the British Conservative party, is trying to do so by a display of his battling prowess in debate. Sweeping the momentarily silent Government Bench with an outraged glance, Mr. Churchill fairly growled his question a second time: "Has a resignation been extorted from Lord Lloyd...
...Feast Day of St. James, but not the placid sort of feast day Rome is used to. From early morning the cobbled pavings clattered beneath the feet of multitudes wending their way to St. Peter's Square. The day grew hot, the streets blazed. Black-shirted soldiers halted the crowds, inspected pockets, handbags. By 4 p. m. the immense elliptical plaza before St. Peter's was packed with 200,000 expectant, perspiring people. At the far end loomed the pillared portico of Christendom's mightiest church, draped with languid purple streamers, yellow and white papal flags, banners of Italy...
...Committee of which he still serves. He has written on many an industrial topic, has been recently engaged with William T. Foster on a study of the Reserve Board v. Wall Street situation. Whenever Mr. Catchings can catch some leisure from his business cares, he travels to his Lake Placid log cabin...
Capt. A. T. Morris of the American steamer Maracaibo, leaned over the ship's rail smoking an evening pipe, gazing at the placid harbor of Willemstad, Curaçao. A thin sliver of moon hung over the tanks of the Royal Dutch oil refinery on shore, shone on the yellow plaster façade of the Governor's Palace...