Word: placidness
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...Lake Placid, N. Y., at a celebration of his 97th birthday, Negro Lyman Epps stood up, quavered "Blow Ye the Trumpets, Blow.'' Nonagenarian Epps remembered that he had sung the same song at John Brown's funeral...
Among the 243 architects were two young Manhattan strugglers who entered the competition late, gave up hope of winning it early. One was big, placid, 31-year-old Richard Marsh Bennett. A month before the competition closed he teamed up with an old friend, short, nervous, 33-year-old Caleb Hornbostel, son of a celebrated Pittsburgh architect, Henry Hornbostel, designer of the Hell Gate Bridge. Physically unlike as partners in a musical comedy team, Hornbostel and Bennett nevertheless had much in common. They studied at the Beaux Arts together, returned to the U. S. at the low point...
...thunder follows lightning, so grumbling follows the annual award of the Pulitzer Prizes. This year's controversy centred around the placid, bespectacled head of Arthur Krock, chief of the New York Times Washington bureau, whose exclusive, authorized interview with President Roosevelt in February 1937-the only one given in five years-won him the $500 prize for distinguished Washington correspondence...
WIND OVER WISCONSIN-August Derleth-Scribner ($2.50). Volume Two in 29-year-old Author Derleth's conscientious project of a Wisconsin historical novel, this is a poetic, placid story of Wisconsin during the Black Hawk War, centring on an idealistic French fur trader...
...hero is attracted by a neighbor's pretty daughter, Author Lane avoids unpleasant human situations as carefully as a dainty pioneer woman avoiding puddles. Blizzards, droughts and cyclones are the main events; in comparison with them, the struggles of the people, for all their physical vigor, seem pretty placid. The story suggests a landscape by Grant Wood-sweeping vistas of prairie country in which human figures appear as small and indistinguishable as gnats...