Word: quiet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than sympathetic view, he planned his ensuing publicity campaign in secret, with such conscience-bolstering sentiments as: "No human beings have ever really seen themselves. . . . They pose and act. They tell stories about themselves to other people. Life is a battle of make-believe, a universal bluff." Quietly, cleverly Palace set about getting a publicity man. Before long he realized that he had whistled up the devil, but by that time everything was too late. By that time Brynhild in her quiet way had fallen in love with another man, had a child by him, resigned herself to living...
...Quiet, exclusive, they will live by themselves, speaking bastard languages, growing fat, tending their flowers. Backwoods people, they live in the city of Allentown Queen of the Lehigh Valley, population about...
...country for years and keeping it on the verge of bankruptcy, the Japanese Navy by & large has played conservative. Worried Japanese businessmen have generally been able to count on the navy's support in efforts to moderate army extravagance and truculence toward China. It was largely the quiet influence of the navy that saw proper punishment meted out to the hysterical young army officers who last year murdered famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi and captured Tokyo's magnificent Metropolitan Police Building (TIME, March 9, 1936, et seq.). In the 1931 invasion of Manchuria Japan's navy...
...broadcasts have become one of the high spots of the war. When his language grows too indiscreet his own electricians sometimes cut him off the air but his broadcasts, always boasting great victories and threatening death & destruction to all enemies, have continued. The Rightist southern front having been mouse-quiet for some time, last week General Queipo de Llano, from his headquarters on Seville's Jesus del Gran Poder Street, told the world...
...Court Judge Lynn B. Griffith rebuked them as much in the name of Labor as in the name of Law: "In your frenzied passion you have violated the law, insulted the dignity and decency of the State of Ohio, endangered the lives and property, and overwhelmed this peaceable and quiet community by your indefensive course of conduct. . . . No labor union in our land approves or condones the erratic course you have pur sued. You do not represent union labor in its struggles and aspirations. You represent a wayward and unstable element of society...