Word: quiet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Borger situation was similar to that in Mexia. City and county officials were conniving with scofflaws, winking at murders, sponsoring speakeasies and brothels. General Wolters supplanted the conniving officials with his Texas Rangers. Khaki-clad patrolmen directed traffic, policed the suddenly quiet streets. Drinkers no longer rioted in wide-open saloons but tippled alone at home behind locked doors. Bootleggers and daughters of joy, hearing the oldtime frontier command to "get out of town by sundown," scuttled away. The women barbers changed to clothes from pajamas...
...footballer who went to war and returned paralyzed below the waist. He then had to roll himself about in a wheel chair while his erstwhile love cuddled another boy. In the meantime a profound and troublous scene has occurred. Avoiding the acute battlefront description of such books as All Quiet on the Western Front, such plays as Journey's End, Playwright O'Casey reveals a group of infantrymen encamped in a ruined apse behind the lines. There they sing songs of war-not bawdy ditties or rousing marches, but strange and awesome chants. This lyricism, now solo...
...Dominions] nothing else can take its place." He asked their cooperation in getting more Canadian orders for British factories according to the plan recently outlined on a whirlwind tour of the Dominion by big, blarneying British Minister of Unemployment James Henry ("Jim") Thomas (TIME, Sept. 2). Ottawa. The quiet city dubbed Canada's capital by Queen Victoria is one-fifth as populous as bustling, industrial Toronto. But of Ottawa's 126,000 citizens a full 1,000 turned out as a mass committee of welcome marshalled by Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon McKenzie King. Canadians made a great...
Just before dawn, one morning a fortnight ago, all seemed quiet on the University of Illinois' midwestern front. But the rambling campus slept fitfully, for later in the day undergraduates were to elect sophomore, junior, senior class officers. Not for some time had the political position of the fraternity cabal been challenged. But this fall, one John Granata, brother of Pete Granata, Chicago precinct captain in Morris Eller's "bloody twentieth" ward, had rallied about him the "barbarians" (non-fraternity men) to form an independent party...
...performs the most meritorious flight service of any one year. During recent months Secretary of War James William Good has been scanning the 1928 records of Army men. Last week he decided to award the trophy to Lieut. Harry A. Sutton of the Army Air Corps Reserve, who with "quiet bravery, intelligence, skill and spirit" tested out the spinning characteristics of several dangerous types of planes...