Word: placidness
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Died. Dame Margaret Lloyd George, 77, three days after Husband David's 78th birthday; at Criccieth, Caernarvonshire, Wales. They had been married 53 years. Mercurial Lloyd George once jocularly observed: "One of us is contentious, combative, stormy. That is my wife. Then there is the other partner-placid, calm, peaceable, and patient. That...
There is palaver between a liberal writer and a Nazi diplomat, and the story of a refugee Jewess. There is a quarrel between a pregnant bride, eager for placid home life, and her Jewish husband who has a confused desire for some active role in Democracy's defense. At length, after what seems hours of talk, a Belgian woman, whose husband has been blinded and her child maimed by German bombs, becomes momentarily crazed and attempts to shoot the Nazi emissary-something that would never happen on Bill Winston's Pan American Clipper. The bullet wounds the young...
...placid Dutchmen found something to laugh at in everything. The day after all newspapers were instructed not to report that anything except cows were hit by British bombs, a wag wrote to one of the papers urging the erection of a monument to "Goebbels' Unknown Cow." After German airplanes and anti-aircraft batteries had worked over The Netherlands for two hours to bring down a runaway British barrage balloon, somebody cracked: "The poor thing finally burst from laughter...
...final development would be for the Harvard O. C. to become a member of the Intercollegiate O. C. Association. Its members could then share in and enjoy such rousing good fellow-good fun occasions as the March Moosilauke winter weekend, or the fall weekend around Lake Placid...
Movies taken by M. I. T., Yale and Dartmouth of College Week at Lake Placid, and films of various climbing trips will be the feature of this evening's entertainment. After the pictures Frank McClintoch of Tech, Hugh Barbour '44, Peter Hearts '43, Howard Odell '43, Roland Mueser '44, and Steve Winship '42, will tell of the activities of the Club...