Word: lull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived in Florence for an interview like those that Benito Mussolini and the late Engelbert Dollfuss used to hold. At the railway station Il Duce met his guest in an all-purpose costume consisting of brown sack suit, riding boots and yachting cap. Most of his staff, during a lull in their enforced tour of duty with the troops, were still in uniform. A gay note was the guard of honor, dressed in 14th Century Florentine helmets and breastplates and carrying not Fascist banners, but the ancient white fleur-de-lis of the Republic of Florence...
...That lull in the race became important at the finish. Cummings, driving a four-cylinder Miller Special, with No. 7 painted on its yellow hood, streaked across first, barely ahead of a black Duray. To make sure he had finished the race Cummings kept on around the track twice before he slowed down at his pit. Mauri Rose, driver of the Duray, who had led the race from the 250-mile post to the place where Cummings passed him 200 miles farther on, learned that he had lost by 27 seconds. On the ground that Cummings had illegally gained three...
...last few comparatively passive weeks in France seem to be heading for the well-known historical niche of "the lull before the storm." These weeks since the February riots have not appeased the populace on the specific issue of the day, the Stavisky burglary; and the turn of international affairs has convinced the vast indefinite body of patriots that France has quite noticeably lost prestige on the Continent. Papa, Doumergue's government is a stop-gap which can satisfy no one for very long: this poker-playing parliamentarian is plainly not cut out for the Strong Man which events both...
...present lull in the Norfolk controversy is no more than a recognition by its principals. Auditor Francis Hurley and Superintendent Gill, of the fact that they have been arguing to an empty court. Massachusetts law specifies only that the superintendents of state prisons are removable "at the pleasure of the Commissioner of Correction," who is an appointee of the governor. The tenor of Mr. Hurley's investigation, which was authorized by the governor to extend not only to the Norfolk accounts but to the whole of the state penal structure, is such that Commissioner Dillon is obviously disqualified from passing...
...Cabinet of that sleek, nine-lived gourmet, Premier Albert Sarraut (TIME, Nov. 6). Impeccable in a frock-coat freshly pressed as usual, M. Sarraut serenely mounted the tribune, adjusted his gleaming pince-nez and read in a murmur a declaration of policy so carefully prolix and nebulous that it lulled and stupefied all opposition-as smart M. Sarraut intended. The Chamber will be left to face of itself the necessity of balancing the budget, Premier Sarraut indicated. When he asked a vote of confidence, more than 200 bored Deputies abstained, only a few Communists and Fascists voted against...