Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...states could properly regulate the sale of admittedly intoxicating beverages; when the amendment, which your plan leaves untouched, forbids the manufacture and sale of such beverages. The only solution is to repeal the amendment and the Volstead Act both, which I am confident will be done. I have kept calm through the whole agitation and get a lot of amusement out of the rows in the newspapers because I consider the question as having been settled before it arose...
...Johnson's famed letters to Lord Chesterfield, to Faker James MacPherson, are printed entire; also his observation that Chesterfield's Letters "teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master." Says Blackwood's Magazine of Poet John Keats' Endymion: "calm, settled, imperturbable driveling idiocy." Gentle Poet Swinburne thus describes Ralph Waldo Emerson to his face: "a gap-toothed and hoary-headed ape, carried at first into notice on the shoulder of Carlyle, and who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own finding and fouling: coryphaeus...
Bubbles. Secretary Wilbur, calm frier of big fish, was not perturbed at this congressional outburst. Said he: "There have been no final determinations reached. It is one of the bubbles on the surface. There have been many others and there will be more...
Last week behind the Century Association's well-guarded doors there was more uncomfortable excitement, more nervous uneasiness, than any game of bridge ever produced. What disturbed the Association's calm was the fact that Iowa's Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, social tattler, no Century member, had risen in the Senate to declare...
...health. . . . The King has been pleased to call as my successor the Chief of his Military Household, Lieut. General Don Damaso Berenguer y Fuste, Duke of Xauen ... a man of great serenity of judgment, possessed of much discretion and dearly beloved. . . .-* I am highly pleased . . . chance to calm my nerves and rest. . . . Don't quarrel over these boys! . . . How pretty you are my dear. . . . Charming, charming...