placidly
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Placidly ignoring the storms such paintings raise, Artist Wood lives in Iowa City in an old red-brick house remodeled by himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Placidly in the rectory remained the picketee: Vulcan's Roman Catholic priest, Rev. Simon Borkowski.
From Time Magazine Archive
Placidly bitter reminiscences of his "too happy and too comfortable" pre-War New England boyhood, by an ex-Embassy attache, political commentator, mystery writer, whose known pseudonyms are Jay Franklin, John Carter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Placidly Judge Buffington read a passage from the Bible, made a little speech welcoming young Judge Biggs as a helper to "four old men."
From Time Magazine Archive
Placidly Narcisse was leaning back reading a paper that he had just got from St. John's.
From A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories by Smith, F. Clifford (Frank Clifford)
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