Word: placidness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...carry out his dishonorable intentions. Pen, jilted by a naval officer, married Bob out of pique. When the rich aunt died she left them very little, and they had a hard time. Soon Bob realized he should have married null No. 5, his sister-in-law Julia, a placid and motherly Jewess. Pen, after presenting him with Woman No. 6, his daughter Barbara, pined for snappier society and insisted on divorcing...
...danger? It was not. but the cause of the meeting was almost as vital. Hugh Montague Trenchard, Baron Trenchard of Wolfeton. had just published a report after 18 months in office as Commissioner of Metropolitan Police. Over four years ago the British public was startled to learn that the placid British bobby-historically the calmest of constables-was not immune to bribery and graft. There were nasty disclosures about protection from raids granted night-club owners. Viscount Byng of Vimy was drafted as Commissioner to reform the force. Eighteen months ago Lord Trenchard, a cannon-voiced officer known...
...attractive character that finally even skeptical readers will agree with the Yankee Shaw family that if Jen wants to marry a Pole, that will be all right with them. The Author, like her heroine, has "never wished to live violently''; admits that her disposition is "naturally placid, content, comfortably optimistic-not unlike that of ... Jen Shaw." She does not believe that running the gamut of human experience is necessary to writing "acceptably." Born in New Hampshire (1904), she has lived most of her life in South Berwick, Me. After four years at Bates College she married another Bates...
...sheer delight. The Vagabond realizes that Nirvana is near. The day wears away; the sun is setting in a receptive, motherly, western glow; in a culminative ecstasy of bliss, the Vagabond sits on the edge of a pool in the Common, watching the dying orb, and dabbling in the placid water with the tips of his toes; he is a child again, and quite, quite happy...
...most intellectually and socially diversified unit in the House plan, containing every sort of intellectual, Lampoon editors, football and other athletes, social climbers, political instigators, loud talkers, do-nothings, and all the other common disadvantages or attractions of every House. Yet the elephant will continue on its independent, placid way, self-sufficient, but justly contented...