Word: placid
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...acclaimed when he was 19 for a series of lithograph portraits of the Massachusetts Senate. His water colors fill an entire room of the Chicago show. There was many a Homer rendering of the thunderous waters of the Maine coast as well as a group of brilliant, placid Bahaman seascapes, faintly reminiscent of one of his most famed works The Gulf Stream, which hangs permanently at the Art Institute...
...nations that have risen from the War Czechoslovakia is most despised by her neighbors, for this rich territory was won not by blood and battle but by picking winners before the peace conference. Because she is rich industrially her people have remained placid. Sixteen years after her foundation Czechoslovakia is an island of real democracy in a turbulent sea of black, brown and green dictatorships. Citizens of Prague have more freedom of expression, more personal liberty than in any other post-War state...
...their virtuosity. Their long experience made Biley almost a minor to them. When a military advance turned a "French" possession into a "German" one, the De Wendels need have felt no great concern. Regardless of the national tag attached to these mines and smellers, they remained in the placid control of one or the other branches of the family...
...allowed the freedom of our green is indeed a trial not easily to be withstood. If we let cows come to our lawn, why not let the gentle pussy of the wood; why must we moderns always be so eager to destroy each sign of placid sanity in our hurried life? And why, oh, why, have we no thanks for the Gentle beast who thus did give her life for science...
...Annie Laurie's parents locked her in her stone-walled bedroom until she stopped her mooning, sadly consented to marry respectable Alexander Fergusson who had rich holdings in Cragdarroch down the glen. Willie Douglas went off and got married soon after. Annie Fergusson grew plump and placid. Nearly 150 years passed before Willie Douglas' poem was discovered by Lady (John) Scott, who married into Sir Walter's clan and spent half her time riding over the countryside looking for antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized by the British soldiers at Sebastopol...