Word: placidness
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Tiresome indeed to a midwesterner is TIME'S placid assumption of July 11 that the Pacific coast and East will furnish the majority of the nation's track stars in the coming Olympic games...
Siam has never had a Senate. Produced last week like a hat-born rabbit, the Senate was found to consist of 70 Siamese army officers, the same who last fortnight staged with His Majesty's approval their placid, bloodless coup...
Strictly speaking-though no one spoke strictly-the Conference met not in Lausanne, high above placid Lac Leman, but in suburban Ouchy at the water's brim, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Beau-Rivage. Around an oblong table the delegates of 14 nations* faced each other with a great calm. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Premier Edouard Herriot, Chancellor Franz von Papen and the rest knew that their action must be to postpone action, adopt a temporary European moratorium and lay plans for drawing the U. S. into general cancellation of Reparations & Debts-after the U. S. elections...
Author of the House's measure was Thomas Alan Goldsborough, a Maryland Democrat from the rural Eastern shore. A lawyer by profession, his legislative hobby is banking. Placid and friendly at home, he is an energetic, fist-clenching, table-thumping speaker in Congress...
...keep awake a sleepy audience, but the chief attraction is better than average photography, which takes advantage of every opportunity for unique angles and views of the unconnected material. And while the supporting cast perspires through its impossible antics, Muller goes on his way, saving lives, making love to placid Marian Marsh, and finally returning to the soil. To those who like tight lips, impassioned appeals, shining instruments, and palpitating perspiration the movie will be a success...