Word: placidness
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...Willow Grove, Pa. last week, horses shied, humans stared, as the world's first "readable'' autogiro was successfully demonstrated. With its propeller still and its three 16-ft. rotor-blades folded back like a closed fan, it chugged along the streets of this placid Philadelphia suburb at 25 m.p.h. until the driver decided to take to the air. Stepping out, he easily swung the rotor-blades into place, fixed them there with three pins. Instant later, the little machine rose into the air, buzzed off over the trees at 100 m.p.h...
...spite of the change of form, it is clearly Galsworthy that we see, for the completely impartial presentation has sure earmarks of that placid soul. The favor of the spectator is skillfully kept hanging in the balance, and the genius of the conceiving spirit makes amends for the occasional crudity of the production, such as the very drab courtroom scenes. Mr. Rathbone's support is good but not notable...
...from these diggings, assayed by the Canadian Mines Department, was reported to contain $200 to $600 of gold per ton. Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd., had bought the claims and was about to start drilling while dozens of mining engineers, hundreds of prospectors were stalking Arden's once placid streets. Again Depression, which steeps most men in gloom and poverty, was demonstrating its power of bringing hope and sometimes wealth to those who tie their fortunes to gold...
...smooth-shaven, intensely modern young men sufficiently dispose of the Victorian idea that Anarchism is an affair of terrifying beards. As a matter of fact, "The Father of Anarchism," the late great Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who died in 1865 had only a "Newgate Frill" (fringe of whiskers) around his placid countenance. The last of the internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded Anarchist", expired peacefully near Moscow in 1921. Not international thinkers but intensely local Barcelona doers by "direct action" are Newshawk Duranty's new news subjects. Anarchist Durruti goes...
Died. Edward Howland Robinson Green, 67, uninhibited son of the late miserly Hetty Green, onetime world's richest woman; in Lake Placid, N. Y. Believing that "the best way to get pleasure out of money is to spend it," he would pay his eleven foster-daughters 15? a page for typewriting, then tear up the pages...