Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, high temple of the sport, had jammed in 378,000, smashed all its own records for basketball crowds. But what had gone before was a tranquil June day compared with the March-madness whistled up in the Garden last week by the play-offs for the national championship...
...When tranquil, white-topped Elmer Davis went to Washington last summer as the people's choice for Director of War Information, his appointment was generally hailed. When he went to Capitol Hill, to ask for funds in well-rounded sentences full of common sense, modesty and "sirs," the House Appropriations Committee was moved to a rare compliment...
...Allied armies enjoy a tranquil countryside, Mr. Churchill said. Their land communications, though long, are unimpeded. Their power of reinforcement is far greater than the enemy's. The Allies have landed half a million men. The Axis is losing nearly two planes to every one of the Allies'. Even if it were the other way around, "it would pay us ... to wear down the German Air Force and draw it away from the Russian front...
...Grande Jatte with shimmering pictures of ladies taking the afternoon sun under the island's trees. In the town of St. Cloud, whose park reveals the most magnificent panorama of Paris, Paris-born Alfred Sisley painted one of his best, The Bridge at St. Cloud. In the tranquil village of Giverny, Claude Monet contemplated the ice and snow on the winter stream, and in summer the riot of purple irises and rare water lilies in his garden...
...thirteen songs to its superficial plot, "Holiday Inn" is the sure-fire musical it has to be. Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby supply able song-and-dance accompaniment,a t the same time filling the order for time-worn romantic conflict. Round one goes to Astaire when the tranquil night club trio of Crosby, Astaire, and Virginia Dale splits up, Crosby retiring to a farm, while his hoofer pal wins the gal and goes on hoofing...