Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DINTY MOORE'S--Thick, Juicy sirloin, tenderloin, top o'the round steaks, broiled to perfection over hickory logs. Intriguing atmosphere--calm tranquility. A Ronrico frosted frappe concocted by the adept hands of Joe or Charlie. And then--Zowie...
...eventual result remained anyone's guess. The almost identical situation in San Francisco two years ago was a tense calm for two months before the tornado of the general strike. Last week, many a Russian Hill housewife began stocking canned food in readiness for another general strike, but Trouble-Shooters McGrady and Hamlet loudly proclaimed that negotiations would yet succeed. President Roosevelt kept mum, but Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins left a train at Buffalo to telephone a trite request for more negotiation. The unions agreed. The shipowners refused...
Alone with a microphone, after all the crowds, the shouts, the flaring lights, Alf Landon spoke in a voice surprisingly calm and deep. It grew ever quieter, slower, more halting as he reached the close of his election eve broadcast, last speech of his campaign. "Our healing . . . will be revealed by the still small voice-that speaks to the conscience-and the heart -prompting us to a wider-and wiser- humanity." On came the voice of the announcer, reverent and tender, as if speaking the epilog of a sad and stirring drama: "And so, quiet falls over the study...
...Landon might quite often be found at home with Governor Landon and the children. What an infinitely calm, reassuring and soothing picture this presents!" Provincial Partisans. As they do the year round, the great metropolitan news papers and chains have set the pace for the rest of the nation's daily press during the campaign. Of the lesser chain publishers, peripatetic Paul Block, with seven dailies in his pocket, has pattered in the footsteps of William Randolph Hearst...
...Producer Wallis lives on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, drives a Cadillac to work, plays a little golf on Sunday. He has been known to turn down his wife, Comedian Louise Fazenda. for pictures he did not think she suited. Spasmodic outbreaks of puckish humor shatter his calm executive mask. He has disrupted story conferences with imitations of Rudy Vallee and Joe E. Brown, can hold his own at banquets with professional gagsters. Tall, affable, dimpled, his personal charm is notable in a business whose executives are conspicuously lacking in that quality...