Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British bombing planes used to keep Irak quiet, but last week Irak bombers were used by the Army's ruthless pan-Arab Major General Bakri Sidki Pasha to effect his putsch. He kept them circling over Bagdad for two hours, perfunctorily bombarded the Ministry Offices, and then issued a communique hanging around the neck of the 24-year-old King Ghazi responsibility for the change of Cabinet which by then had taken place...
...healing . . . will be revealed by the still small voice-that speaks to the conscience-and the heart -prompting us to a wider-and wiser- humanity." On came the voice of the announcer, reverent and tender, as if speaking the epilog of a sad and stirring drama: "And so, quiet falls over the study in Topeka, Kansas." Three hours later the Sunflower Special chuffed out of Topeka on its last trip, taking the Republican Nominee back to his home town of Independence to vote. Some 5,000 of his neighbors were down at the Santa Fe station...
...congregation (2,000) in the diocese, contains a stained glass window with the figure of a priest blessing little children, a fresco showing a youth in red pants carrying St. Luke's Church to the Lord. Both hawk-nosed figures are unmistakable likenesses, to the Bishop's quiet satisfaction, of George Craig Stewart...
Marring eve's quiet with a loud halloo...
...suggests, as its most valuable contribution, something of the flavor of life in easy-going newspaper and Bohemian circles in pre-War New York. A young reporter on the New York Sunday World when he met 0. Henry, William Wash Williams was dazzled by him from the first. The Quiet Lodger of Irving Place consequently tells little that is new about the lodger, but is a nostalgic guide book to Irving Place in the days when it was bounded by Tom Sharkey's Saloon, 'Bony Pastor's vaudeville house, and the famed Scheffel Hall that O. Henry...