Word: tranquilizer
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...House and Senate obligingly approved the Postmaster General's purchase of a topper-fitting automobile. In New York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language-dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody. Said he: "Beauty of sound is not enough. Mush is a word pleasant to the ear, but its connotation is ugly. Beauty of meaning is not sufficient. Mother is one of our most loved words, but it lacks euphony." Meeting in Manhattan's Empire...
...Managua the newspaper Niicva Prensa, organ of the defeated Conservative Party, heaped special praise on Admiral Clark Howell Woodward, supervisor of the election. "Admiral Woodward returns to his country with a tranquil conscience" said Nueva Prensa, "sure of having maintained . . . the honor and impartiality of the United States...
...Roman Catholic church, school, charitable institution. Hale & hearty as he is, he perhaps tires of Boston, of his lavish three-story Italianate house which, built on a rock ledge, is jarred by passing trolleys and trucks. Perhaps Cardinal O'Connell would prefer to spend his remaining days in tranquil Rome, where stands his titular church, ancient San Clemente, which he has beautified at a reputed cost of $100,000, with a marble bust of himself outside...
...banking reforms did not make every bank solvent. His farm measures did not pay off the debt on every farm. But [his] tactics saved the day. We have prevented disorders, riots, social upheavals. We have cared for the needy, we have averted panic and catastrophe. . . . The United States is tranquil, solvent and confident...
...earnings. ... But when my sincere offers were met with conditions and impositions which would have diminished my dignity as a man and as an artist, I preferred to follow the only straight path: never to bargain with one's self respect leave the Metropolitan with a tranquil conscience but with sadness in my heart...