Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer of "The Foxes" has not sacrificed his art or his pleasure on the altars of fame and true greatness. He has no pretensions. He does not attempt to explain life or to escape it, he presents it as he sees it, with a quiet grace and charm that is always captivating. The Negro dialect is presented echoicly without the slightest attempt at humor. The work is a lyrical pastoral, delicately beautiful. One must struggle to speak prosaicly of it when inevitably there is a rhapsody on the tip of one's tongue...
...lives, liberties, and reputations, but with fat fortunes, offices in Wall Street, houses with swimming-pools and hot baths on Long Island, innumerable servants, debutante daughters, jewel-laden side-kicks, clubs with arm-chairs and whiskey, in fact, all the good things in life, as well. Without such fearless, quiet, hard-working defenders of the people as Senator Black, these men would continue to bribe innocent politicians, and to steal the saving of widows and orphans, and even he could not do much by way of exposing and attacking the dirty crooks without the power of the United States Government...
...Beta Kappa, an honor won at Brown by his father and grandfather before him; appointed managing editor of the Brown Daily Herald, a job once held by his father; made a member of the Junior Prom Committee, a position not previously held by either his father or grandfather. Tall, quiet Grandson Hughes also belongs to three honorary societies, debates, won his class numerals in soccer, played last year on a championship fraternity baseball team...
...time her story opens she has discovered that as a person she dislikes him intensely but cannot get rid of him. What Isabelle wants is to marry Laurence, an impeccable Virginia gentleman who has gone to Paris to ask her. Life with him, she is sure, would be peaceful, quiet and no trouble. Though she hates violence, she plans and carries out a violent scene at André de Venders' door which effectually frightens him out of the running. Unfortunately, Laurence is an unseen witness; she frightens him away too. To make the best of a bad bargain Isabelle...
...audience sat reverently quiet through the showing of two full-length ballets, eleven solos. Music was played by the London Symphony, conducted by Vladimir Launitz, onetime Russian aviator, who once was Pavlova's musical director. Effects on the screen were sometimes hazy. Many of the pictures had been taken in 1923, some in South America, some in Australia. But it was still possible to marvel at the dancer's incomparable grace, that ethereal quality which made it seem as if she floated through...