Word: tranquil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squatting upon the speakers' platform Mr. Gandhi ignored the Communists utterly, moved not a muscle when Communists tore his Congress flag from the platform and put up their own. He waited tranquil and serene while Nationalists threw the Communists and their red flag out, restored the red, green & white Nationalist flag...
...Continued tranquil, utterly unstirred by tidings that the Sixth Earl Winterton had just been slapped in the face in the House of Commons by crippled Laborite Charles James Simmons and later challenged to duel...
...Dean Greenough have embarked upon their project in the belief that harmonious surroundings are in themselves a furtherance of the humanistic aims to which the house plan is dedicated. The results that may be expected in this direction can be estimated only by those who have actually seen the tranquil beauty of Dunster House on the banks of the Charles and the cloistered dignity of the central court of Lowell House. That some little formalism of manner and management in the units should be borrowed from the older universities of an older country is entirely fitting. Dons and high tables...
While the Vagabond surveyed the tranquil skeletons of forthcoming buildings in the CRIMSON precinct from the gold, blue, and pink effulgence of Lowell House tower late last night he contemplated the work before him on the morrow. Too long, he mused, had he postponed the struggle with the broken pens, the clotted ink, the sartorial, laundry, and periodical soliciters which awaited him in his old haunts at Memorial Hall and its surrounding greensward. Now he would be pushed and jostled by his late fellow arrivals intent on registering before the Bursar demanded an extra check for $5 from his already...
...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...