Word: placidness
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...Yukon's upper pools. Swimming stoutly against the current, it will take them all summer to reach the headwaters. On the long trip (2,000 miles) they eat nothing, slowly burning up the fat oil they have amassed in the sea. In the autumn they reach the clear, placid upper reaches of the river. There the males, haggard, savage from starvation, tear each other with fierce beaklike jaws, fighting for mates. The female scoops a nest in the sand, squeezes into it from her abdomen several thousand ripe eggs. Swimming over it, the male fertilizes the eggs. Then both...
...clergy. Photographs of popular Cardinals in the act of dropping their sealed ballots into the voting urn were displayed in all Italian illustrated reviews and Sunday roto-gravures. In sunny Palermo cameras even caught Monsignor Lavitrano as he ostentatiously deposited unsealed a ballot plainly emblazoned with the Fascist device.* Placid, bespectacled Pope Pius XI and other churchmen actually resident in the new Papal State could not vote because they are no longer citizens of Italy. Dopesters estimated that His Holiness' influence had flung into the scale of Fascismo at least 1,000,000 extra votes. A sadder if not wiser...
First off, no one knew, last week, exactly on what day or in what week or even during which month the British General Parliamentary Election would be held. As leader of the party in power (Conservative), placid Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin could and would send all Great Britain scrambling to the ballot box at whatever time his advisers deemed least favorable to the rival parties (Laborite & Liberal). He might spring a "surprise election" in early May, or dawdle along until late June. So long as docile Britons are called to cast their ballots within the legal period of five years...
Blanche Yurka is tall, almost burly. As the placid wife of improvidential Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck she filled an ample role to which her body, her accomplishments and her God better suit her than the tense thing to which she has tried to suit herself in Hedda Gabler. She gives a certain effect of languor, but it is the languor, not of a bitter neurotic, but of a temporarily awakened marble slowly reverting to stone...
...Einsteins to the popular, but not costly, German water resorts for their vacations. Last summer, when the professor was so weak from illness, they were at Luebeck, old Hanseatic town on the Baltic. There Dr. Einstein lolled about in his beach chair or in his sailboat. He likes placid sailing. Once the sails are fixed he stretches out, hands under his head, and idly watches the sky. This he will do for hours...