Word: placid
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...deuces (and Queens) wild, with an intended or unintended laugh ever 7 1-2 seconds, and a chance to receive the most erroneous impression of a historical period that ever engraved upon celluloid. Scene the Second: in struts Charles Laughton as the marrying king, with some of the placid content of an enraged bull in a cow pasture. You won't have half as good a time as he's going to have in this piece, but don't let that worry your tiny heads; things are going to be all right once we get around to his third...
...Placid Loafers. In Linden, circa 1895, the pace of life was leisurely. The horse-cars would stop while conductor and passengers got out to give some neighbor a hand. When a fire started, the volunteer fire fighters seldom got to the scene before the building was leveled. Most people worked hard but were not acquisitive enough, says Paul, to kill themselves at it. Even the town loafers, apparently a numerous caste, he remembers with respect for their placid bearing while their wives took in washing to support the family. But they were true to their natures, and so, it seems...
...Townsendites met in Washington's 5,000-seat Uline Arena. The meeting got off with a whoop when two exuberant ladies saw California's placid, lantern-jawed Dr. Townsend, the 80-year-old founder, entering the jammed hall. They jumped up and began to chant...
...Universal-International) suggests that James M. Cain and other hard-shelled melodramatists could have taken lessons from the Edwardians, and, in particular, from the works of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, who wrote this story. Ivy (Joan Fontaine), a product of that placid era, is married to an impoverished wastrel (Richard Ney) who is as eager as she to live high, and climb higher, but isn't as smart about it. Ivy is carrying on with a young doctor (Patric Knowles) who isn't so very smart either. When she foresees a brighter future with rich, glamorous Herbert Marshall...
...good but not great," spoken by the men-who-know, silenced the affair until last Saturday when the Crimson eight splashed across the finish line at the Lake Washington Regatta in the astounding, record-breaking time of 5 minutes 49 seconds. The best time up to then for a placid surface was 13 seconds slower, and last Saturday Bolles was reliably reported to say that "this is the best sprint crew I ever coached...