Word: placidness
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...exotic Chinese garden in the village of Tongka, not far from Canton. The lord of the garden and of the village-a model village-is the venerable Tang Shao-yi, perhaps the last great statesman of the fallen Manchu Regime to survive in dignity and honor. Round his placid head the nasty rumors and insinuations buzzed. Soon...
...down for a fortnight's visit as the house guest of U. S. Minister to the Netherlands Richard Montgomery Tobin. Presently Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands bade Sir Austen to come and take dinner at the unpretentious, neatly painted mansion which serves as Her Majesty's palace. Placid Dutch courtiers admitted that Crown Princess Juliana, 19, is beginning to ponder whether she should take as a useful consort one of the British King-Emperor's younger sons: Prince Henry, 28, or Prince George...
...something more than a device. In the chorus of the Greek tragedy came first recognition of the essential rhythm that underlies life, which is never absent, and which is written deep in human existence from the humming of the child at play to the measured rocking's of placid age, from the Antigone to "Broadway...
While the bell swung and tinkled beneath Bella's placid, munching mouth it signalized that no other cow in all Austria gave so much milk as she. Last week President Hainisch braved the sad, brown eyes of Bella and took away her bell because he had had tidings of a cow named Maria, owned by one Herr Kraft of Graz. This rival cow,, this upstart Maria, has produced this year 2,400 gallons of milk and bettered the record of Bella by several foaming pails...
...White House when southern Democrats were shouting: "Tell me, if the hoisting of the Black Republican flag . . . by a Frenchman's bastard, while the arms of civil war are already clashing [in Kansas], is not to be deemed an overt act and declaration of war?" So, placid Fillmore of the Whig party took enough votes away from Frémont to give the election to portly, blundering Buchanan of the Democrats...