Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to be admitted to the World Court. Then, he urged all news papers to refrain from the dissemination of rumors and confine themselves to . facts in relating foreign news. Said The New York World: "Mr. Coolidge ... in the talk of the street, had his nerve with him." More tranquil, the Republican New York Evening Post remarked: "The place for the newspaper to try to influence public opinion is on its editorial page. It may be its duty to express the hope that the rumor it prints on its front page will prove to be false, but it is equally...
...safety and a premonition of his execution (murder) drove her mercifully insane a year before the event. She imagines herself still Empress of Mexico. She assumes that her brother, the late King Leopold II still reigns in Belgium. Secure within the armor of perpetual delusion she enjoys a tranquil happiness not vouchsafed to normal mortals. Sometimes she lives again the days when, as a child of nine, she romped sedately in a pelissed jacket beneath a mushroom hat. Sometimes she recalls proudly that her husband once called her "the better man of the two." Mastication. King Albert and Queen Elizabeth...
...tribute of imitation. "If he had been capable of instruction," said the New York Evening Post at the time of his death," he would have been the greatest landscape artist of any period or people." The pictures that he painted with such stormy concentration were usually as tranquil as twilight. Brown cows sunk in August meadows, fly-twitching, drowsily browsing; sheep streaming, grey blurs, cloud-patterned, home over a hill to a fold of peaceful and fleecy sleep; valleys folded in mist, green V's in the breast-hollow of a hill-range, ponds lying like shields at sunset...
...criticism has been drifting about in regard to the proposed new chapel to be erected on the site of Appleton. Hypocrites, heathens, and one-cylinder Shaws are reported to be auctioning God for a gymnasium. Puny little babbling voices from this desert of sin are deploring the thought of tranquil worship in cool marble halls...
...beautiful chapel which is shortly to be raised is opposed by certain crass souls so sunk in materialism that they prefer the flesh pots to the beauty of tranquil worship in cool marble halls. And think of the poor boys sleeping their last sleep in France--what could be more suitable than this aspiring, finger pointing toward Heaven in perpetual memory of their noble exploits? And what is wrong with the present gymnasium besides the fact that it is old and-considerably infested with the smallest of God's creatures. After all, should God be sacrificed because...