Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straight, quiet streets which run north & south in Topeka, Kans. are named for U. S. Presidents. In the ornate, yellow-brick house at No. 801 Buchanan St., with a dried-up goldfish pool in the front yard, Alf M. Landon crawled out of bed at 7 o'clock one morning last week. Swiftly the Governor of Kansas pulled on an old blue suit, soft white shirt, red and blue tie, black shoes. At 7:20 he was down for a breakfast of orange juice, fruit, scrambled eggs and kidneys, toast and coffee with his two small children-John Cobb...
...shrewdest and best-informed political observer in Kansas, is popularly supposed to have dictated to all but one of its Governors since 1920, was an oldtime Landon friend. They, with the Star's President George Longan and Editor Henry Haskell, nursed the Landon candidacy along with quiet talk and sage advice while talk of New Deal waste and extravagance grew louder & louder in the land...
Last Good Friday morning one John Fiorenza, 24-year-old upholsterer's assistant, went to the apartment of Lewis H. Titterton in Manhattan's quiet Beekman Place. Mr. Titterton had gone to his work as continuity editor at National Broadcasting Co., but his wife was at home, alone. At the door Fiorenza said he had called to get further instructions about repairing a couch, was admitted. Fiorenza then over-powered & raped Mrs. Titterton, knotted a rope of clothing around her neck, left her to strangle in the bathtub...
Prophet Of Gloom Note: Word comes to us of a respectable middle-aged maid of Teutonic extraction who suddenly gave notice to her employers the other day after having lived with them in peace and quiet these twenty years. It seems she has her mind set on returning to Germany. When everyone asked in God's name why, she finally admitted she felt she'd like to say good-bye to her family. . . . "before the war". (V.F.W. might note...
...widows, staying with their grown daughters in Rome, indulge in reminiscent chat. The brilliant, condescending one is left speechless at the news that the quiet one's envied daughter is also her husband...