Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...were tired and exhausted with the heat of the great debate that had killed Calhoun, and sent Clay and Webster to their death-beds. The Compromise had been passed, and the two great empires within an empire went to their corners to bind up their wounds. The delicious calm and relaxation that follows struggle had enveloped them. The conciliatory spirit of Clay, that sprang from the open meadows and wooded streams of the Blue Grass of Kentucky, had prevailed over both the hot blood of South Carolina and the brawling abolitionism of the North. He had gathered...
Tanned under his crumpled white hat, the President fished calmly in the Pacific. Far from calm was the Senate. As irritation mounted, Colorado's Johnson, Nevada's McCarran, Indiana's Van Nuys, South Carolina's Smith, Iowa's Gillette, Alabama's John Bankhead, issued statements ranging from plaintive pleading to desperate threats. Saturday Congress had stopped even pretending to keep its mind on its work, cocked an ear to Springfield, Ill., kept an eye on the ticker for a flash from the Panama Canal Zone...
...stepped Sheriff Hall, one hand on a gun butt at his hip. It was a situation few sheriffs would like to face. But he faced it. "You've always known me to play fair with you boys," drawled he. "There's only two women in there." With calm deliberation he walked through the mob, got in a car, drove off. As he explained afterwards, he had been on duty 38 hours and he needed sleep...
...life is not all a question mark to Officer Sughrue. His police-box in the Square has endowed him with philosophic calm. The busses and street-cars are passing phantoms, but the bits of human nature that Sughrue observes are real and lasting. He likes to watch for each new crop of Radcliffe Freshmen and takes pride in his ability to spot the "belles dames" of the Fall Season. Progress is slow at first. The Freshmen stroll through the Square, alone and un-eyed. In a week or two Sughrue is quick to note the presence of an occasional escort...
Twenty-seven-year-old Dan Wickenden tells this story with the calm abundance, accomplishment and promise of one kind of natural-born writer. He tells it so well that his work bids for serious as well as genial examination...