Word: tranquillity
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...inviolate as the Monroe Doctrine, settling down over the Carribean. There is the deep rapture and breath taking enthusiasm of Professor McIlwain which sweeps the stupidity of Stephen and of the class into brighter realms. There is Edgell playing like the eternal fountains of D'Este. There is the tranquil sentiment of Mr. Hersey as he sits like a corner of London, and a truly delightful corner, in Sever 11. There are all these and many more. They have given their time, their energy, and their devotion to the high cause of Harvard and they can not be forgotten...
Last autumn I happened to be dining with the Regent of Hungary on the night of the pound sterling's collapse. Every one was gloomy and prognosticating the end of all things with the fall of England, when the Regent, who looks just like an English admiral?the same tranquil "sea" eyes?raised his glass and said as quietly as Lord Nelson might have done...
...currently show, even on paper, such a surplus. During March moreover the pound sterling gained 20¢ on international exchange and held this gain last week. In Budapest His Serene Highness Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, would have been well justified in raising his tranquil "sea" eyes and drinking again to England...
...principles of which he never lost sight. He was a gentleman reared in and almost feudal civilization, maintaining to the last the virtues and the blemishes of that civilization. He was a leader of bright, if restricted vision, a politician of sound, if conventional theory, a man of careful, tranquil thought. Like Lincoln he possessed that rare ability of assessing human values...
...boughs trail their white burden on the road way. In the woods, where the sun falls, snow slides off the needles and drops with a soft thud. A tiny rabbit scurries off on hastily remembered business and a grouse whirrs up into the blue. The world is quiet, and tranquil, and fair to see. The world is new, and merry, and very friendly...