Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miserably sat in her automobile 50 yd. away. Assistant Hangman Hanna adjusted the noose. Unlike Rapist De Boe, who was permitted to quarrel for an hour with his victim, Negro Bethea had nothing to say. "Man, he's there!" whispered an admiring spectator. The hot-dog sellers fell quiet...
...reverential tribute to the genius of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau. It begins in 1815, when U. S. writers were largely dominated by European standards of taste and when there was virtually no U. S. art; it ends in 1865 when the Civil War had already put an end to the quiet way of life that gave rise to New England culture. In these 50 years the greatest literature that the U. S. can claim was produced. The purpose of Critic Brooks's history is not only to re-examine the productions themselves, but to visualize the social conditions that nourished...
...North Spain the stalemate of rebel and loyalist forces battling in the Guadarrama Mountains continued. Barcelona remained quiet, but loyalist officers were busy organizing an expeditionary force of 14,700 men, with ships and planes to attempt to recapture the Balearic Islands from the rebels, bomb Palma, Majorca to bits...
Alain was blond, handsome, a little priggish, a pampered only son. He bought Saha at a cat show, raised her for three years, delighted in her quiet, affectionate tricks. He had a few misgivings when he married Camille, who was modern, athletic, informed, impulsive, changeable as a mountain stream. But he lost them during their honeymoon and only began to harbor a secret resentment at Camille's plans for remaking their house. While it was being done over they lived on the ninth floor of a Paris apartment, to which Alain soon found an excuse for bringing...
...friend Caro had a quieter career, learned more from his experiences, lived to keep going the battle that Mudarra lost. Caro loved sad-faced gentle Lucia with quiet constancy, was mocked by his friend for his simplicity in "chewing iron," which was the colloquial term for carrying on a courtship by talking through the iron bars of a sweetheart's window. Mudarra recognized no such restraints. He swept Lucia off her feet, then confessed his betrayal to Caro. The two men fought with knives, found that they did not have the heart to kill each other. Later Lucia bore...