Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called "War Literature Week" as the host of 60 German authors who have written pro-War books since 1918. Not one of the 60 has a name outside Germany. All world-famed German authors of the post-War generation have been men like Erich Maria Remarque whose All Quiet on the Western Front the Nazis think fit only for bonfires. Samples of the Kultur...
Although in years past Cardinal Pacelli has spent a quiet month's vacation in Switzerland or at Montecatini, Vatican officials blandly informed newshawks that his decision to cross the Atlantic at one of its stormiest seasons was "inspired by his love of the sea." Tersely, the Vatican let it be known that the Cardinal Secretary of State was traveling incognito, accompanied only by his gentleman-in-waiting, Count Enrico Galeazzo, Vatican City engineer and representative of the Knights of Columbus in Rome; that the Cardinal wished no elaborate welcome in Manhattan; that his headquarters during his stay would...
...Helena (By R. C. Sherriff and Jeanne de Casalis; Max Gordon, producer). This play by the author of Journey's End presents British Actor Maurice Evans in a quiet, minutely drawn portrayal of Napoleon Bonaparte's last years on the rocky island of St. Helena. With his handful of faithful generals, the exiled emperor arrives with a grim swagger, never doubting that he will soon be leaving as he left Elba. At once he foregoes his precious daily ride on horseback when he learns that a British guard must accompany him. But hope springs up when he reads...
...QUIET LODGER OF IRVING PLACE- William Wash Williams-Dutton...
When Sherwood Anderson published Winesburg, Ohio in 1919 he laid the boundaries of an imaginative world that has occupied him ever since. It is a world such as no other U. S. novelist has presented, a world of small towns and cities that are quiet on the surface, inwardly seething with inarticulate poetic restlessness. Its inhabitants usually seem plausible and matter-of-fact at first acquaintance, but they brood, talk to themselves, take long walks at night, sometimes shout out incoherent poetry, have a tendency to leave wives, homes, business. Naïve, unpredictable, constantly bemused by the world around...