Word: placidness
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Whether or not Mrs. Naidu ever spoke as quoted, she advanced at the head of 50 placid marchers until faced by a troop of British police. When they would not let her pass, she called for a rocking chair, sat in it for 24 hours...
...year a Wet candidate for the Senate). Mr. Jameson was the largest individual contributor ($172,800) to the Hoover campaign (TIME, April 28). Squarejawed, tightlipped, with a big dimple in his chin, Mr. Jameson has grey-fringed black hair, a close-cropped black mustache, wears sparkling pince-nez before placid grey eyes. Spruce and good looking, he refused to be photographed because, he said, he was "not good looking enough." The tale he told the committee concerned how he had played what politicians call "the fat cat" (cash provider) in the South to defeat Smith...
...four minutes. Neighbor Mars required 7.2 min.; poky Jupiter 47.2 min.; Saturn 2 hr., 56 min. Scurrying Venus made her lap in 148 sec.; Mercury, 58 sec. More levers were manipulated and the heavens went through a violent upheaval. Once the sky was settled again into a placid course, the audience were told that they were looking upon the heavens that Galileo studied. Next they saw the heavens by which Columbus navigated his boats; finally, the heavens as they will be centuries hence...
...some time I have been subjected to boasts of "California Sunshine" and "California Athletes" and have become accustomed to limiting my expressions of disgust to sighs of pity. But it is asking too much to have me remain placid in the face of a statement that "Stanford so hopelessly outclasses Cornell that it is unfair to Stanford to be called a counterpart of that school," even under threat of apoplexy...
Ymuiden, on the North Sea, is the small site of the biggest lock. Thither rode two portly women last week from The Hague: motherly Queen Wilhelmina and womanly Crown Princess Juliana, who at 21 has the placid tastes and pious, frugal habits of a Dutch matron...