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...peril vanished, leaving mystified students to retire to their habitual calm and wonder what a Botanic Garden was, after all. With the first bright rays of spring sunshine, however, the Botanic Gardens once more bloom securely on the front page of the morning paper, but this time in the tranquil atmosphere of compromise. The Harvard administration and the local gardening forces have settled their difficulties to their mutual satisfaction. The buds will sprout in peace this spring, for the war of the roses is over...
Yale took him back with open arms. It made him Kent Professor of Law, supplied him with an enormous chair to hold his 340 Ibs. In the Taft Hotel, named for him, he had a special office, rent-free, because he was a public character. Then followed eight happy tranquil years of teaching. Taft's older son Robert had graduated from Yale (1910) when his father was in the White House. Charles, much like his father, in manner and mind, was the all-around man of the class of '18. He played basketball, football, was the most popular...
...bonspiel is a curling tournament between clubs. For eight days, wherever you went in Winnipeg, you saw the curlers leaving one rink, on their way to another. Many of them were elderly men, all serious, carrying long brooms and heavy sweaters; they looked up at the sky, which was tranquil, and said gloomily that it might bring baugh ice, meaning a thaw...
...When I am no longer here," said he on his deathbed, "If a military peril menaces France, call on Weygand and you can be tranquil...
Majestic--Otis Skinner in "One Hundred Years Old." Tranquil and pleasant study of a centenarian by the Quintero brothers...