Word: placidness
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Oslo is the capital of Norway and there is a placid affinity of minds among Netherlanders, Norwegians, Luxembourgers, Danes, Belgians, Swedes and Finns. These neighbors are so good and so unable to defend themselves that they recently decided at The Hague to revive the Oslo Convention of 1930 under which they were all to have lowered tariffs among each other. In principle the Great Powers too are strong for such good neighborliness, in practice their statesmen feel helpless to down either tariffs or rearmament, and so last week they played up the Oslo Group benignly...
...legged, pleasure-loving Edward Rowland Robinson Green died at the Lake Placid Club last June at 67, his wealth estimated between $40,000,000 and $100,000,000. He was the son of Hetty Green, once the world's richest woman-the penny-pinching "Witch of Wall Street" who used to shuttle between Brooklyn and Hoboken to avoid establishing residence and paying taxes while she was making millions in the stockmarket. Hetty conducted her affairs from any desk she chose in Manhattan's old Chemical National Bank, often ate a lunch of sliced Spanish onions while sitting...
...long his close friend, in Chicago, and then built a fortress-like, 100-room mansion on Buzzards Bay at South Dartmouth, Mass. He maintained a palatial retreat on Star Island near Miami Beach and a penthouse atop the swank Sherry-Netherlands Hotel in Manhattan. He was at Lake Placid for his health last June. At the time of his death he had a blank will form in his pocket...
...nine years before his marriage - the 180-word document left Colonel Green's entire estate to Mother Hetty, or in case of her death, to Sister Hetty." This will Mrs. Wilks filed for probate in the Surrogate Court of Essex County, N. Y. in which Lake Placid is located. Represented by the potent Manhattan law "firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, Sister Hetty said that her brother had not been a resident of New York, but owned property there...
...hurrying down their stairs, into autos, on trains, etc., are rushed through engraving plants onto your breakfast table. Soon negro house boy suspects, stern but kindly judges, and lawyers will parade by. It's almost a relief to turn back a few more pages until we come to a placid, bovine girl, but one whom we know is good to her parents, labelled "Hard Working Member of Dance Committee...