Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory by discovering on the male Brentford Torso three long strands of hair unquestionably female. At the coroner's inquest, Sir Bernard, close-lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman. Not a mystery of Spilsbury calibre but England's robustious crime of the week was the preliminary police court hearing at Bournemouth of Mrs. A. V. ("Lozanne") Rattenbury...
Forrester Blake made the drive of which he writes while still a college student, but for all his youth and inexperience, he writes as though the West were continually coursing through his voins. His book is a peculiarly happy mixture of the simplicity, honesty and quiet humor indigenous to the countryborn, with a style so facile and fluent as to put the majority of his elders to shame. At times, his descriptions are startingly effective. The "trail drive" becomes an actual experience for the reader, and when the last page is regretfully turned, one's mind travels back o episodes...
...Delaware, the House of Representatives voted 22-to-12 to endorse Governor C. (for Clayton) Douglass Buck for the Presidential nomination. An in-law of the du Ponts who rule the State, quiet, handsome Governor Buck reciprocated by recommending that Legislators raise their daily pay from $10 to $20. No one seriously expected tiny Delaware to win a Presidential nomination; the legislature's move was chiefly a precautionary one to tie up to a "favorite...
...give a fillip to the notion that "Sterling is the best money," and Sterling soared against other currencies, gold and paper. Smug British bankers plumed themselves once again on the Empire's supremacy in creating sheer confidence out of whatever sheer confidence is made of. Keen in their quiet way, His Majesty's Government, several days before Belgium went off the gold standard, quietly upped tariffs on iron and steel which Britain imports chiefly from Belgium, thus blunting the cut-price advantage Belgian exporters would otherwise have gained...
Louis Wiley never married. He lived in quiet luxury in a huge Park Avenue apartment, attended by men servants. He got his greatest fun out of dancing. Asked what, aside from the Times he liked best, he once replied: "Beautiful and attractive young women...