Word: placidness
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...President took a day away from Hyde Park to visit Lake Placid, Saratoga and Whiteface Mountain, attend local shindigs in behalf of forest conservation and public works...
...more than three hundred years ago that Robin Herrick, the jocund lyricist of pastoral England, passed, if we may judge from his Hesperides, a riotous four years in St. John's and Trinity Hall, two colleges backing on the placid Cam. Apprenticed to a goldsmith, he later became a parson in Devonshire, but the fine skill of his rejected trade seems to have followed him into the art of juggling with words...
Died. Mrs. Olivia Phelps James Hoe, 98, charitarian widow of Robert Hoe III, maker of Hoe newspaper presses; after brief illness; in Lake Placid...
...elbow fortnight ago, was promptly diminished to the danger point when Rookie Clydell Castleman, who had won eight games, lost two, broke his hand in batting practice. One major reason for the Giants' success so far this season, despite overconfidence and bad luck, has been their large, placid, blond centre fielder, Harry ("Hank") Leiber, whom any consensus of experts would name as the outstanding rookie of the year. Discovered by one-time Giant Pitcher Arthur Nehf, Leiber, 23-year-old son of a Phoenix, Ariz, advertising man, joined the team in 1933, went to Jersey City, Memphis and Nashville...
Except for Carl Laemmle Jr. of Universal Pictures, David Selznick is the only able producing son of an able producing father in Hollywood. In an industry filled with jittery peewees, he is distinguished by being large, placid and affable. At M-G-M his most successful ventures were Viva Villa and David Copperfield, two of the most expensive pictures of last year. Of United Artists' 1935-36 schedule of 30 pictures, Producer Selznick will probably make six. The company which next autumn will revive the legend, obsolete for 13 years, "Selznick Presents" will be called David O. Selznick Productions...