Word: placidness
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...Comrade Rudy had unjustifiably discharged 300 Chinese machinists. In Nanking, officials of the Nationalist Government examined minutely the wording of the Khabarovsk Treaty, started angrily at the number of concessions to Russia to which abject Manchurians had agreed announced that they would not ratify the Chino-Soviet Treaty, summoned placid Mr. Mo for a good talking...
...last week on the walls of the Chambrun gallery, against the imagined landscape of all Perdriat's paintings there appeared the figures of languid, self-contained and luxurious girls. Most were portraits of Perdriat or her Norwegian friend; a few were groups; one was a scene from some placid and improbable bawdy house, in which five harlots were drinking and playing cards beneath a cloud of afternoon...
Downhill. Last year the New York State Legislature passed an act authorizing the construction of a bobsled run on Sentinel Range near Lake Placid for the winter Olympic games to be held there in 1932. Last week the Court of the Appellate Division decided the act was unconstitutional. Said the court: sliding down a hillside is one act-nothing unconstitutional in that; but chopping down the state's trees to make the slide is not right. Some 2,600 trees would have to be chopped down to clear the hill. Attorney-General Hamilton Ward, in sympathy with bobsledding, said...
...Tenth annual figure-skating competition, Lake Placid...
...Costume ice carnival, Lake Placid...