Word: placidness
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...rules of strict legal ethics. Counsel Seabury thought he had a gentleman's agreement with Doyle's counsel whereby he would be given notice when the case was to be taken before an Appellate judge. He was mistaken. Late one evening, one of Doyle's lawyers raced to Lake Placid, got an uncontested stay from Justice Henry L. Sherman, oldtime Tammany worker...
...cool of his Rapidan camp last Sunday President Hoover lolled restfully. It was the first relaxation he had had in a week of intense negotiation with France over his proposed debt holiday (see p. 16). His eye roved across the placid Virginia countryside. Inside the "Town Hall" a telephone bell rang. It was Acting Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. in Washington. The President, excited, almost leaped to the instrument. What was it? Another note from France. Was it satisfactory? No, it made serious proposals counter to the President's plan. Very well, the President would return immediately...
...artist with sneering enunciation, a tough blonde who incites Detective Chan to aphorism. After several aphorisms (sample: "Death is a black camel who kneels unbidden at the gate of every man"), suitable rebukes to an overenthusiastic assistant, and three narrow escapes which do not cause him to modify his placid nonchalance, Detective Chan reveals the guilty suspect, explains the actions of the others...
...wife of the Japanese Ambassador, plump, cheerful Mme Matsudaira; the wife of the Chinese Minister, thin, nervous Mme Sze; and the wife of the U. S. Ambassador, pale, placid Mrs. Dawes, each presented her daughter last week to King George & Queen Mary...
...squat" (hut-settlement) of Koor. Koor, hitherto invincible patriarch, is aging, and the young hunters are beginning to mutter to each other. Soon the inevitable happens. The tale suddenly skips to 1750; Koor's squat is now the drowsy village of Marden Fee, its people outwardly a placid yokelry. But in many of them still runs the blood of Koor. When Gipsy Noke kills the highwayman he instinctively tries to placate the ghost as his ancestors did. And nothing could be more prehistoric than the love-making of Tom Shellett and his half-sister Charity. The Squire marries, gaffers...