Word: placidness
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That boldest of bold Jews, massive, magnetic, organ-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, gave the World Jewish Conference in placid Geneva a mighty rousing last week. "We Jews are in the front-line trenches," he cried. "We are the 'Belgium' of the latest German war against mankind. The mighty army of Christendom and Civilization stands behind us and around...
...intrusion of outsiders into the charmed circle of the Warings produces unhappiness and tragedy. Ellen, on the borderline of insanity, drives Dicky from drink to suicide. The placid, shallow Thornton cannot hold the love of Linda, most colorful member of the family, who turns to Joel, wavers between him and her small son, finally decides to divorce Thornton. Luly, mother and grandmother, dies. When in 1931 Mark Waring decides to sell The Grove for what it will fetch in bad times to save Brad, no one objects. Its day and its kind of hospitality are over...
Anything but placid these days are good Queen Wilhelmina's Netherlands. Sharpshooting soldiers and crunching tanks were needed fortnight ago to crush Communist riots at Amsterdam where eight died and an old deaf woman went down with two bullets in her back (TIME, July 16). Last week more threats of disturbance in Rotterdam caused a large section of the city to be clapped under a state of alarm. In the Crooswyk quarter, where Communists were expected to demonstrate, troops moved in under orders to "Shoot on sight anyone who appears in the streets.'' When it came time...
...will be safe where you are going," he told Frau Dollfuss, kissed her and waved goodby. Safely next morning Frau Dollfuss and kinder arrived at Riccione to be house guests in the safest little seaside villa in all Italy, that occupied by Her Excellency* Rachele Mussolini, portly and placid wife of Il Duce. Later this month, if all goes well, the two Dictators will join their wives for a week-end conference at Riccione, the third personal conference in a year of Mussolini and Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 28; March 26). In Vienna the little Chancellor announced: "Austria's foreign policy...
Intoxicated by Adolf Hitler's 'success thus far with the Nazi "blood purge" in Germany, ambitious Herr Albert Forster, 31-year-old leader of Nazis in the Free State of Danzig, called last week for shooting in its placid streets...