Word: placidness
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...from the New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals. Also on hand was Attorney General David T. Wilentz, the man who did more than any other to convict Hauptmann. In marked contrast to the scene at the trial court with its fetid air, crowded benches, hustling newsmen, was the great, placid, colonial chamber of the Court of Errors & Appeals, whose floor is carpeted in rich burgundy red, whose walls are filled with great legal tomes, whose broad windows look out upon the Delaware River. No one was admitted except those on official business, even Mrs. Hauptmann and Spiritual Adviser Werner being...
...poetry is another matter. His latest collection, dedicated to 14 Manhattan publishers (because they would not publish the book), is Cummings at his most untrammeled typical. Apoplectic or easily worried readers had best leave it alone; but bolder or more placid spirits will come to no harm, may even find some food for thought, amusement or admiration in No Thanks. Such an observable sunspot is Poem...
...Hard for members of democracies to realize is the truth that when dictatorships end, programs usually follow suit. It is to be hoped that in the looming grapple for the reins of the Polish government the winner will be a man whose polices will further the move toward, a placid and permanent solution of the tangles of Eastern Europe...
...visitors occasionally heard the tots deliver bulletins on the day's egg output in the sonorous language of Cicero. Today there are 1,500 acres around the 220-ft.-long house at Mount Hope and the tax assessment is one of the two highest in Massachusetts. Placid, meticulous Mrs. Prentice has a great pipe organ, gives elaborate musicales. A corps of geneticists and laboratory workers is constantly in residence, juggling the genes and chromosomes of 10,000 mice. Friends and admirers say that Mr. Prentice's unique achievement could never have come about had he not been rich...
...attitude of placid unconcern characterizes the Administration's stand in regard to solving the commuter problem. University Hall remains complacently aloof, although members of the faculty declare Phillips Brooks House inadequate to meet the commuters' needs and a student committee requests some definite aid in reaching some satisfactory solution...