Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paucity of art," and there is still a chance that true Art and the Metropolitan Opera will yet come into their own. When the owls hoot and call in the top stories of the Rockefeller Center in the years to come, New York may give birth to a quieter and more shapely baby...
Uptown New York (World Wide) is in a quieter vein than Central Park (see above), a three-cornered Bronx romance about a blonde Patricia (Shirley Grey) who marries a chewing gum salesman (Jack Oakie) after she has had a love affair with a successful surgeon (Leon Waycoff). The time comes when, to save Patricia's life after an accident, it is necessary for the surgeon to operate on her. Eddie, her husband, decides that after all Patricia likes the surgeon best; to facilitate her leaving him, he absents himself from home. When Patricia guesses what he has done...
...natural gas in the dark ages of oil, the dark ages of the Titusville period, ante Rockefeller and ante Standard. It was difficult to picture these Philadelphians in the new order of things. The gods of the new independents were the Phillips Brothers, dashing Harry Ford Sinclair and his quieter brother Earle, Pennsylvania-born William Grove Skelly, cocky Wirt Franklin, lavish Ernest Whitworth Marland. Joshua S. Cosden who would bet on anything...
Because Sir Henry's name is one of the greatest in railroadom, his resignation a great Canadian event, little was said last week of the smaller, quieter man who succeeds him?Samuel James Hungerford ("Sam" to a few friends, "S. J." to most), 60, for nine years vice president in charge of construction, operation and maintenance. His railroad career covers 46 years. It began just one year after Canadian Pacific spanned Canada, when he became a machinist's apprentice on Southeastern Railroad, which was later absorbed by CPR. In 1901 he was sent west from New Brunswick to be locomotive...
...newshawks looked temporarily baffled, then went out and began writing stories about who would succeed Snorkey as gang chief. Consensus was that it would be cocky, sleek-haired Hymie Levin, not his quieter lieutenant, Murray Humphries. Editor Jack Leach of The Daily Northwestern, student paper at Northwestern University, published an editorial entitled "Get This, Capone," warning Snorkey not to attend any more football games...