Word: placidness
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...placid ending of the Congressional session has become wholly unlikely since Messers Frazier and Lemke planted their inflation bomb in the House. The implications of this bill are many and various, but for the moment they seem to be largely of a political nature...
...role. Norton Goodwin in the part of Charles Tritton trembles and wavers and broods just as he should. He is an English medical student whom one follows through a Scotch university. During the course of the play he exchanges an earthy, ebullient childhood sweetheart (Bettina Gray) for a skyey, placid sculptress (Lois Hall). That is the essence of the drama, and the cause of the various spasms...
...last January the placid sardine-canning village of Eastport on Cobscook Bay was a booming town. Some 5,000 Maine unemployed were working day & night on the project. Three labor camps had been established. On Moose Island, Quoddy Village with 130 colonial houses had been built, with dormitories for both sexes of dam-builders, with grandfather clocks, loveseats, early colonial furniture and $16,000-houses for executives...
...offered by the pictures of a Tyrolean mountain church yard and an excitingly beautiful picture of a deserted wooden house which has become practically obscured by the lush growth of the vegetation. There are also a skillfully taken shot of mountain snow-scapes and a gentle study of a placid sea quietly dying upon a sunlit beach...
...President Roosevelt's Baltimore speech of the thirteenth is any indication of what we may expect from a second caging of the Elephant, it is time to hamstring the Donkey instead. The nation is still fairly placid in spite of the aimless and futile experimentation it has undergone. But if that experimentation is to be revived, with no emendation and no attempt to contract its illegality, the guinea pig has every right to become a snorting wild boar...