Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realistic. Samples: a soldier with a sword piercing his throat, another transfixed by an arrow, an agonized, trumpeting elephant with a spear sticking in its eye, a soldier caught by a wounded elephant's trunk dashed to pieces against the ground. But there are some surprise shots of tranquil loveliness: a close-up of five banks of oars leisurely sweeping a Roman quinquereme through still water; against a big sunset cloud pile, the beak of Hannibal's galley drifting into Carthage harbor as he returns defeated from Italy...
...August 2, 1914, the cruiser Emden lay in the tranquil, mountain-embraced harbor of Tsingtao, China, with its crew assembled on deck. Captain Karl von Müller, a man of Prussian gallantry and Goth insolence, read to the sailors a wireless message announcing war's declaration...
...grave, spare, rather homely North Carolinian entered the courtyard before the massive grey British Foreign Office on Downing Street. He turned to the right, passed the guards, walked down a broad ornate corridor, passed through a large oak door into a spacious room. Its windows looked out on the tranquil lake and lawn and trees of St. James's Park. The clocks of London struck three...
...contain but the biennial world conference of the Mennonite Church. A plain-garbed, plain-spoken sect holding the tenets of 16th-Century Netherlander Menno Simons, the Mennonites shun attention and cities alike. At Allensville, surrounded by the rugged mountains of central Pennsylvania that hem in the fertile and tranquil Kishacoquillas Valley their ancestors settled before the Revolution, they felt perfectly at home. The 7,000 delegates came from Argentina, Tanganyika, India and all North America by a variety of conveyance from trailer to airplane, at meal times ate their fill for 20? of tasty Pennsylvania Dutch cooking...
Early this week Secretary Hudson, badgered by the press and politicians, was once reported on the point of resigning. The Prime Minister, tranquil as ever, appeared before Parliament to explain. The Hudson-Wohlthat discussions were "private" and "unofficial" and the Cabinet knew nothing about them in advance, the Prime Minister reiterated. The Secretary and the foreign trade expert were simply discussing how international confidence could be restored, and naturally they mentioned international trade, barter agreements, exchange restrictions, import quotas. But there was "nothing unusual" in the talks and certainly no loan was proposed...