Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary General of the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France, which boasts more than 30,000 members, but also Vice President of its High Council for Births. With his wife and daughter, M. Boverat stopped in for tea and croissants one afternoon last winter at the hitherto quiet, respectable Restaurant Bagdad. Little did the Boverat family suspect that the Bagdad's proprietor had decided to make a stand against Depression by the drastic step of hiring a fan dancer who had played in some of the hottest cabarets and vaudeville houses from Chicago to Miami...
...Wasp-powered Lockheed Orion Auto da Fe (Act of Faith) was trundled out of a hangar for a non-stop flight to California. Standing beside the gleaming black-&-silver monoplane, Miss Ingalls' dander rose when a bystander said something about a possible funeral. ''You be quiet!" she snapped, blue eyes blazing. Tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Miss Ingalls next became angry over an airport ruling that she had to use an unfamiliar runway. Finally she took off, headed west, reached Burbank...
...Pennsylvania, pushed on penniless. A boy from Buffalo pedaled wearily to Philadelphia on a bicycle, arriving three days late. Most delegates from out-of-town arrived by automobile, were put up by local Christian Endeavorers. They arose at 7 a. m., gathered in Convention Hall for an early "Quiet Hour" of Scriptural reading. Eager and uncritical, they absorbed thin-spread ideas from speakers on marriage, peace, evangelism, social justice, politics. They yielded to the energetic, well-scrubbed personality of Christian Endeavor's world president, Dr. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling. They marched in a great parade to show how they...
...partner, Miguel left the company, visited Denver, saw Leadville at the peak of its boom, became a member of the Chaffee Light Artillery of Colorado and served during the railroad strike of 1879, when the strikers took the roundhouse at Pueblo. Then he settled down, aged 20, to a quiet life in Las Vegas, where there were 29 killings in one month, 18 in another ten weeks, and where, as he remembered it, "one of the important events of . . . 1880 was the opening of a new saloon...
...FARM AT PARANAO?Laurence Kirk ?Doubleday, Doran ($2). Quiet English story of a girl who migrated to Brazil to be married, the gradual development of her love for her stranger husband...