Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literary circle sent their gentle brain children out for placid airings, last year whipped up its horses with a $10,000 prize for "the most interesting novel of any kind, sort or description," submitted by any writer, "whether born in London or Indianapolis." Readers looked for some tranquil, mildly effeminate tale, perhaps modeled on those of Edith Wharton. They were surprised on scanning the first installment of Jalna to discover a robust and brawny fiction, crowded with characters energetically alive, scampering into unexpected breaches of decorum. More than that, this book is one of the few important literary works which...
Commented the Giornale d' Italia, Mussolini newspaper: "Criminal waves . . . will pass, while the beauty and strength of Fascism remains, ensuring to Italians a great, tranquil, industrious and powerful mother country...
...expects something different from Professor Perry. Characteristically he has written a preface, entitled "The Author's Apology," in an age that has forgotten apologies for such titles as "Tramping on Life." More important, and infinitely pleasing, is the contrast between the tranquil vigor of his prose and the flurried bristling style affected by so many modern essayists...
Resources and associations of university life offer just such a retreat. The undergraduate is provided not only with an education, but with a mode of life, leisurely, tranquil, suitable to study and quiet thought. The men who were steeped in the beauties of the peaceful streams and meadows around Oxford or Cambridge, who passed long, quiet years in the cool courts and gardens of the colleges, who found congenial friends and tutors, read much classical and modern literature and exchanged ideas with stimulating minds, naturally here afterward the mark of those years...
...tranquil afternoon, John Hay would look out of his windows on La Fayette Square, watch an "old corps commander or admiral of the Civil War, tottering along to the club for his cards or cocktail." Over there was where Mrs. Dolly Madison used to live after her husband died, there was the house of Daniel Webster, of William H. Seward, of Commodore Stephen Decatur. In 1905 John Hay died; so did the one great salon of the New World...