Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publicized execution in months and a banner opportunity for Britain's No. 1 Anti-Capital-Punishment Crusader, plump Mrs. Violet Van der Elst. The widow of a Belgian shaving-cream tycoon (Shavex), her jail-gate antics before the hanging of British murderers used to fill British authorities with quiet amusement but they do so no longer. With her Shavex-colored limousine, sound trucks blaring hymns, hired sandwich men and airplanes scattering leaflets, "Sweet Violet," as the penny press calls her, can be counted upon to draw large crowds of gawpers who mill about, tie up traffic for hours (TIME...
...Philanthropist Hecksher settled with a written contract to pay her $15,000 a year for life, in return for which he retrieved numerous letters he had written her. Having paid Frieda Hempel her annuity for seven years, he halted last December, asserting Singer Hempel injured his "peace, quiet, and happiness" by "accosting" him in "public places...
...zenith of popularity. During the Boer War the British pursued him with blood in their eye; in the World War they made him a general. Smuts has attracted more hatred from varying sources than any man in South Africa. But through all his ups & downs he has kept the quiet consciousness of duty done. Volume I of Sarah Gertrude Millin's General Smuts is no campaign document blocked out with a whitewash brush but a sympathetic biography of a Big Boer...
...DARK GREEN CIRCLE-Edward Shanks-Bobbs-Merrill ($2). Pleasant, ambling tale of polite romance, dark forces, diabolic rites, in a quiet English village. Only the most impressionable will subscribe to the publisher's assertion that the story "Casts a Spell...
...Harvard Narragansett season has opened on Plympton Street. Crowds roar and shout as favored entries speed down the home stretch, carrying the hopes and silver of many an enthusiastic bystander. The quiet of a Sunday evening gives way to the carnival spirit of a gaming crowd (Mass. Racing Commission please note). Not yet equipped with the full paraphernalia of the track, a shrewd Good Humor man would do well to seek such a lucrative location before the monopolistic possibilities of concessions are exploited...