Word: tranquillity
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...Host. Tranquil, intellectual Ahmed Fuad, Sultan of Egypt, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, extended formal hospitality to the Califate Congress, but entertained no credulous hopes that he is likely to become temporal and spiritual overlord of Islam should the Conference indorse his claims. Though the British "protectorate" over Egypt terminated in 1922, Britain will tolerate no uprisings in Egypt which might threaten the Suez Canal -"the route to India...
...when men must fight for the greater truth as they see it against another aspect of truth which in the insistent strife is less vital; times when duty demands not to ask the reason why, but to do and die! Then duty becomes heroic, but intellectually simply. In more tranquil periods the supreme duty is to think aright. It is then that opinions can, and should, be formed that will direct action when the stress comes. Let us not forget that in peace the conflicting opinions are formed that later produce wars; that in quiet times the social ideas grow...
Thus reassured that I should suffer no pain and lose no blood by exposing myself to the "smaller and quite inoffensive" members of the species, of avowed vegetarian habits, I have run the risk of upsetting the tranquil quiet of a vacation day by opening the door to the flying galley proofs of this Student Liberal Club publication...
...free and tranquil. Let him run his course. If he wins, let him have the glory; if he loses, his will be the sadness. But do not allow anybody to say that the Nation had found a leader and that the pettiness and envy of men made him fall...
...Significance. This is obviously not a plot-novel, but an exposition of character. Mr. Marshall is the apotheosis of unmitigated realism. There is no glamour, no ecstasy, no high-wrought moment in his tranquil pages. Amid the swirling eddies of pathological novels, sex-exploitation and the so-called literature of unrest, his stories flow placidly on like the streams of his own cheerful countryside. But his disarming simplicity is the vehicle of profound observation. His is the genius that can bring characters to life and make them three-dimensional, with their little prides and prejudices, their faults and virtues, their...