Word: quietest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angelinos rated Sister Aimee's 14th convention as one of her quietest; this year there was no street parade. Mrs. McPherson, hard as she works and well-gowned, flashing-eyed and well-preserved as she is at 46, is no longer the sole, monopolizing evangelist of California's poor in spirit. A plague of quarrels and lawsuits has rained upon her the year past, with her onetime lawyer, her one-time publicity woman, her onetime business manager, her daughter Roberta, her "Ma," Mrs. Kennedy, and finally with the equally flashing-eyed woman whom she hired as associate nearly...
...Paul's Cathedral in London, 1,000 worshippers gawped when a shapely young woman of 25 walked to the altar, threw off a long cloak, knelt stark naked, was hustled out. In Rome where Pope Pius XI remained in ailing privacy Easter was the quietest in years. In Moscow, 60,000 die-hard citizens, oldish and mostly women, packed the city's 28 surviving churches...
...elaborately decorated palm branch from a member of the Bresca family of San Remo, which since 1585 has clung to its perquisite of supplying palms to pontiffs. This week, when the rest of Christendom joyously concludes its 40-day Lenten fast, Rome and the Pope were to pass their quietest Easter in years. Because of Sanctions and European unrest, few tourists or pilgrims arrived in Rome for Holy Week. Because of the war in Ethiopia, the faithful who thronged St. Peter's Square on the off-chance the Holy Father might show himself were mostly women and children...
...mayors. Cuba had had no election at all for eight years, no election even moderately honest for 20. Most politicos, who preferred their own voices to the people's votes, had made certain that last week's election would prove as little as possible. It was the quietest election in Cuban history, for which U. S. bigwigs in Havana gave much credit to able U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery...
...quietest night that anyone in Mexico's red light district could remember. Charros in from the ranches, generals and politicians in holiday mood strolled leisurely to their favorite bordellos, found the doors locked, turned impatiently to rival establishments, then beat frantically on doors up & down the street...