Word: placidness
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...evening three weeks ago Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N., retired, settled down in an armchair in his Washington home to spend a placid hour with the placid Evening Star. Suddenly his eyes fell upon a press photograph that brought him smartly to attention, soon sent him angrily scurrying for pen and paper. The picture in the Evening Star was that of a painting intended for the current Public Works of Art Project exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery. Its title: The Fleet's In. Its artist: 29-year-old Paul Cadmus of Manhattan. Its subject: drunken sailors and bawds...
Said Vice President Garner from pious Texas: "Is there objection to the present consideration of the joint resolution?" Placid silence followed. The clerk read the resolution. More placid silence marked the automatic passage of S. J. Res. 21. Not unusual is it for the Senate to adopt a resolution permitting erection of a monument to a Civil War cavalry colonel who was also a great Republican orator. But altogether unusual was the Senate's action when the soldier-orator had an even greater fame as an antiChristian, a man who, were he still alive, would have picked...
...York. There was a vicious punch in the storm's great white fist when it struck New York State. At Lake Placid the thermometer slumped to -12°, freezing out the hardy contestants in the North American bobsled races. In Manhattan, 9.2 in. of snow fell. In the metropolitan area 500,000 commuters could not get to work. The Stock Exchange opened an hour late. Setting aside another $2,000,000 to pay 50,000 men to dig his hard-strapped city out, Mayor La Guardia moaned: "I get the jitters every time I see snow." Because all city...
...Hoevenberg bob-sled run, near Lake Placid, N. Y., Gilbert Colgate and Richard Lawrence last week prepared to try for the two-man championship of North America. Dressed in bright blue uniforms, wearing goggles and blue leather helmets, neither bothered to examine the steering apparatus of the sled. They already knew that the most important bolt holding the front runner under control was missing, but they had decided to risk going down without...
Pioneer bobbers in the U. S. are the four bear-trapping, motorboat-driving, flying, hotel-owning Stevens Brothers of Lake Placid. Beaten this year for the two-man title, they had the satisfaction of keeping the four-man title in the family. Hubert, who won the two-man championship last year, was too ill to defend it this year. Last week two Stevens teams were entered in the four-man race. After a day's postponement because it was so cold that drivers' noses froze while they were making the run, Raymond Stevens won the title...