Word: placid
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...cheerfully placid when she left as she had been on arrival. After 24 hours without sleep, she got on a plane for San Francisco announcing that she had to get up early to see her grandson John Boettiger in the morning. Wasn't she tired? "Oh no," she said, "I don't feel tired at all-but sometimes I do take a few vitamins...
Little Jimmy is not even a distant relation of Nolan, the terrifying and terrified Judas of The Informer, or of the cold blooded Killer-Philosopher Michael McDara of The Assassin. In the intellectual twilight of the placid, humdrum Ireland that De Valera made, Liam O'Flaherty has become all quaintness and whimsy-and a little lost...
...them, get the impression that Orley Farm is all about "cream-cheeses, pigs with small bones, wheat sown in drills, or artificial manure." As roomy as a barracks, as thickly populated as a small village, Orley Farm is one of the least bucolic, least loose-jointed of all his placid, jog-trotting accounts of life in the quiet Victorian countryside...
This year the race had been shifted from the turbulent Hudson to the placid Ohio, where it was hoped that the dams at Marietta would still the current and the complaints of coaches that Poughkeepsie's course was unfair to crews. But the change did not seem to affect the West's standing. Before last week's race undefeated Washington had been picked as the favorite by nine of the twelve coaches, including Washington's Ulbrickson himself. California was the second choice...
Tomorrow when the Crimson and Blue meet for the 98th time in what is America's oldest intercollegiate event, Harvard is again the top-heavy favorite. The Cambridge side of the world is hoping for a placid Saturday...