Word: quietest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spends his mornings in the studio, his armchair drawn up to the easel, painting from the model or still life. The window looks out on to the uncared-for garden, and provides the quietest view in the room. Everywhere else one looks is blazing with color: bright silk cushions, bric-a-brac, copper vases, flowers, fruits, costume jewelry, feathers, and yards of vivid material looped over chairs or hanging ready for his models. In one corner stands a huge aviary which used to be flashing with Milanese pigeons (most of them died during the war). An old-fashioned country telephone...
...think?" asked Visson. Lord Halifax bent down with a tired smile. "I don't think this is the end of the world," he said. This quotation ended TIME'S story, which may not have been the best one from San Francisco that week, but was surely the quietest...
...streets of Mexico, Christmas is the quietest day of the year. For children it is just another day of waiting for the toys that by Mexican custom will come a fortnight later, on Jan. 6, the Day of the Three Kings...
...been given every advantage that money can buy. For nursemaid, Joe Taylor has a full-sized Greek chorus singing Richard Rodgers' pleasant tunes; for playing after school, a full-scale Agnes de Mille ballet; for wedding music, a virtual cantata. His most uninspired thoughts reverberate through loudspeakers; his quietest desires are wired for sound. As a result, Allegro gets too big for its roots and too elaborate to have an honest Our Town warmth. Snapshots in family albums lose some of their character and charm when blown up for public display. That way they show their defects more plainly...
Everybody was swapping congratulations. Somebody dropped a dead mouse down somebody's back. Said solemn Joe DiMaggio, veteran of seven World Series: "These celebrations are all alike-but I can stand them." Outside of Joe DiMaggio, the quietest fellow in all the champagne-splashing was the man who did most to win the pennant-Manager Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris...