Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cool early morning in autumn, New York City's Park Avenue is a quiet place to walk. Town-house curtains are drawn against the dawn; broad sidewalks are bare of people. Yawning, hotel doormen crack their white-gloved knuckles in boredom...
Sharpest possible contrast to loud, big boned Mr. Fish is Virginia's quiet, studious Clifton Alexander Woodrum. If a composite of typical U. S. businessmen could be assembled and varnished, he might look like Mr. Woodrum. The gentleman from Roanoke is milk-mild about everything but the public debt; only New Deal extravagance burns...
Last week, to the delight of tourists contemplating the usual spectacle of a Houseful of sleepy fat men, quiet Mr. Woodrum spotted a hole in Ham Fish's position, crashed through it to score standing up. He charged that 37 Republicans and one Democrat, led by Ham Fish, had organized a "propaganda racket that makes the utility outfit and that of Dr. Townsend look like pikers...
Some Lancashire Sam dropped his musket somewhere on the Western Front last week. And by what seemed a mutual agreement with the enemy, no officer pleaded with him to pick it up and get on with the battle. All was quiet. There was here a scouting party, there an exchange of salvos. But even those had an unreal quality. "It is not a very furious war at present," remarked a French officer to a group of newspapermen visiting the front...
British troops moved up to quiet frontline positions. Germany was thought to have brought her Siegfried Position force to 1,400,000. Reconnaissance flights continued. Soldiers said they knew it was a war because the cooties were biting. But it looked as if the Allies wanted to stall along with Herr Hitler's peace drive until November, when weather begins to get too severe for extensive, daily air activity. Then a whole winter on the economic front might strengthen the Allies' military position...