Word: placidness
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...square-rigged, ruddy-cheeked, sea-trading folk of one of the quaintest old towns in Europe last week dropped their placid and peculiar tasks-such as adding tiny flakes of pure gold leaf to the sparkling, sweet liqueur they sell as Danziger Goldwasser-to come tumbling down the high stoops of their peak-gabled houses for a bucolic joy spree over Adolf Hitler...
Last week placid, union-wise Father Maguire did a signal service to Labor and to another St. Viator alumnus. Vice President of big Warner Construction Co. is Thomas LeRoy Warner, who studied under Father Maguire over 30 years ago and is still his admiring friend. Last July his company was building Green Mountain Dam and power plant in Colorado for the U. S. Reclamation Bureau when five A. F. of L. unions struck for a closed shop. Deputized vigilantes from nearby towns and farms shot down five pickets, took over the dam site, behaved so raucously that Colorado...
...very shortly Senator Johnson's chortle died in his throat. Secretary of State Hull emerged from a conference with President Roosevelt to announce, in diplomatic language as placid as its true import was severe, that the U. S. would now follow Britain's gesture of appeasement with one of menace. Even as the U. S. fleet was moved back to the Pacific at a moment when Britain needed all her available sea power in European waters (TIME, April 24), so now the U. S., as Britain backed up to ease tension in China, stepped forward threatening a thrust...
Peace Passion. For a dozen years the U. S. had enjoyed peace with placid satisfaction. In this new pre-war world peace became an emotional issue. As the anti-war chorus swelled, Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, emerging from nine years of obscurity as a minor radical in Congress, led the shouting. The Senate gave him carte blanche and $50,000 to investigate the part which munitions makers and their bankers had played in implicating the U. S. in World...
...most colleges it is the football team; at St. Olaf it is the choir. Each year between 200 and 300 of St. Olaf's 1,000-odd muscular youths and placid maidens try out. The few who are picked have something to write home about. St. Olaf's choristers are held to their musical tasks with religious rigor. To be dropped from the choir is the greatest disgrace than can befall a St. Olaf student...