Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved by your radio account of the lynching. It's the talk of this town. The irony of the thing, of course, is that the radio penetrates even unto Eastern Shore, where at least some of the participants in that pageant must have heard it in the rational quiet of their homes...
...beards, a megalomaniac, a religious fanatic who places propaganda stickers on hats and windows, a great actress, a press agent, Christus and Judas from Murenberg, a business man and his secretary seeking a quiet nook for illicit love; such is the assortment on the Twentieth Century going from Chicago to New York. Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, the authors of "Twentieth Century," have no doubt, been influenced by Grand Hotel; the scene of action jerks back and forth from compartment to compartment giving us an illusion of what happens on trains while we snore peacefully...
...deep solemnity which surrounds the anniversary of the end of the World War, still a football crowd does not form quite the appropriate audience for such ceremonies. It is more fitting that the anniversary be observed, as is to be done, by a special service in the quiet of the Chapel, Saturday morning. The one minute of reverent silence seems to accord better with these precincts than with the heated enthusiasm of football fans...
...ship whose captain has seen the white plume of the torpedo's compressed air wake and swerved his course to avoid the deadly charge. Last week the Imperial Japanese Navy, tired of wasting torpedoes which miss their mark and cost more than $5,000 each, sent out a quiet request for volunteers to man a new type of "human torpedo...
Philadelphia's fair-haired maestro discovered Rodzinski nine years ago in Warsaw, a quiet, determined young man of 30 who was conducting at the opera house instead of following the law career for which his parents had educated him. Stokowski invited Rodzinski to be his assistant in Philadelphia. He stayed there four years, then went to Los Angeles which began to have its financial worries last winter when William Andrews Clark Jr. announced that he could support the Or chestra for only one more season (TIME, Oct. 30). Los Angeles like Cleveland needed a new conductor for the sake...