Word: placidness
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...sets out to become a great lawyer, and appears to be in a fair way of realizing his ambition if he can definitely sever his ties to his old home town in Virginia. However, instead of marrying a wealthy tradesman's daughter in Baltimore, he gets attached to a placid, contented, and very beautiful young lady from home...
...George Winch & wife of Lake Placid, N. Y., went blue-berrying last week. With them they took their son Peter, aged two, who played while his parents picked. Also out berrying that afternoon was a large, female black bear, which gave small Peter Winch an experience few naturalists would believe though storybooks are full of such things. The she-bear picked up the child in her mouth. When he cried out and the parents came running, the bear loped away, carrying the child until she came to an open field near a railroad crossing where, alarmed, she dropped her burden...
...Placid as a still pool has been the great U. S. political issue of Power in recent months. But last week there was dropped into the subject an incident which came from such an eminence, with such publicity, that though the actual splash quickly subsided, the ripples seemed almost certain to be perceivable, perhaps as waves, long later in U. S. history...
...feel perfectly tranquil and safe among this mass of workers,"* mildly observed Il Duce, no longer ravenous and raving, last week to 150,000 workmen in a third and placid speech at Milan?the speech of a man who has dined and is content. ". . . It is unnecessary to recount what the Fascist Government has done for labor. We think of your interests, all your needs, because we love you as workers and fellow-Italians. Today's feast of labor shows how the regime respects labor and the workers...
Ravel's Bolero by Serge Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony (Victor, 2 records, $2 each)?A highly charged reading of the season's symphonic sensation in Paris, Manhattan and Boston. The records, with Satie's placid Gymnopedie on the back of the second, are already best sellers...