Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorothy Arzner is short, stocky, with a quiet executive manner, a boyish bob and an interest in medicine and sunsets. She graduated from Westlake School, a semi-fashionable Los Angeles seminary for girls, into a job on the switchboard for a wholesale coffee house. A friend got her a $3 raise and a place in the Paramount stenographic department. She became a script girl for Nazimova, did so well that she was pro moted to the cutting room - a department then generally staffed exclusively...
After colliding with the official automobile of Massachusetts' Governor James Michael ("Jim") Curley, Louis J. Ferreira Jr. had his driver's license suspended indefinitely. Indignantly exclaimed Ferreira: "Some friend of Curley . . . took me home in a car. He . . . told me if I didn't keep quiet I'd lose my license. He asked me if I was working and I told him no and he said if I kept quiet...
...pool. He was doing fifty this summer but it was a smaller pool. Eyes hurt in the sun, too much chlorine in the water. No cocktail before dinner, swore off two weeks ago and only had one since. Dinner in the Master' lodgings, the Master tall gray quiet man, professor in an antique tongue. Master's wife good company. Some talk about new parietal rules, plans for House dances. Back to the Attic a little after nine and an hour reading Kleist's "Prinz Friederich von Homburg" with text in one hand and Langenscheidts "Deutsch-Englisch" in the other. Listen...
...cinema's recent investigation of the U. S. past including to date The Gorgeous Hussy, Robin Hood of Eldorado, Hearts Divided, The Plainsman, The Texas Rangers, Last of the Mohicans and Daniel Boone (see col. 3), now broadens to include Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson's quiet classic about a ranch-girl's love-life in the San Jacinto mountains, circa 1870. Ramona herself is half-historical, half-fictional, half-white and half-Indian, but there is nothing halfway in the manner in which Twentieth Century-Fox has handled her biography. It has used the simple framework...
...however, not a murmur arose against either Mr. Adams or the hand-picked banker nominated to succeed him in 1938-Philip Adolphus Benson. A likable middle-of-the-roader, Banker Benson has been president of Brooklyn's Dime Savings Bank for four years, is 54, small, bright-eyed, quiet and an assiduous speaker on Thrift...