Word: calm
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Calm, dignified but surprising was an announcement made by the $1,162,000,000-in-assets Transamerica Corp. last week. It said that Transamerica's shares had been unduly depressed,† that a group of executives had formed a $20,000,000 syndicate to support the stock, that all shareholders were invited to participate in this syndicate...
...years ago. A traveler by inclination, he knows especially well the Near East, Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. Credited with knowing more about Czechoslovakia than any other living Englishman, he has written several other books about it. Baerlein's travels have been largely "calm and peaceful," except in Mexico (where he collided with Yucatan authorities), Albania (where his linguistic excellence got him suspected as a Yugoslav spy, and where a man in Durazzo is still waiting to kill him). Other books: The House of the Fighting Cocks, Over the Hills of Ruthenia, The March...
...Austria the Fascist party (Heim-wehr) of Prince Ernst Rudiger von Star-hernberg, trounced at the last election (TIME, Nov. 17), failed last week to make good their threat to seize the State by armed power. Amid perfect calm Dr. Otto Ender, one more henchman of Austrian boss-politician Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, assumed the Chancellorship. He did not reappoint sword-rattling Prince von Starhemberg to His Highness' former post of Minister of Interior, appointed no Fascist whatever...
...leather and somewhat sombre respectability of the Ritz Carlton contributed an air of calm that is quite unusual in theatrical interviews, but Miss Margalo Gilmore of "Berkeley Square" succeeded in providing sufficient zest to compensate for the absent back stage excitement it was a sort of fire without the smoke arrangement which is to say that it was somewhat of a simplification of the ever-present, bold intrusiveness of an interviewer...
...steadier in a match in which neither was very steady. In the final, with a great crowd billowing over the course, Miss Van Wie played good golf all through, good enough to win if Miss Collett had not achieved a spiritual imitation of Bobby Jones. She had the calm, infuriating air of a player out for a couple of easy practice rounds. Miss Van Wie was only one down at the end of the first nine, but then Miss Collett made her imitation of Jones factual, turned in nine birdies and a spectacular eagle, won the match and her fifth...