Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even that notorious dastard and Spanish Political Grafter Juan March, popularly supposed to get his way in any part of Spain with 1,000 peseta notes, bolted like a rabbit for France until things should quiet down. A few weeks ago brazen Juan March was offering publicly to highest bidders the Governorship of a Spanish province and all its seats in the Cortes, which he claimed to control. Last week Dastard March and the blameless Duquesa de Fernán Núñez were about equally scared. The Duchess stripped off her great rope of pearls, left it with...
...Company's own bond account reviewed; market value on Dec. 31, 1935 substantially exceeded book value. . . . Purchases and sales of more than 100 items of securities for 48 trust accounts approved." Another entry: "Temperature zero. Practically no one seemed in the mood to visit the bank today; lobbies quiet...
...whole, these short notes combine to make a singularly entertaining history of the literary tastes of the United States since 1900. They recall the prudery of the early 1900s, which "labored with a quiet stubbornness to restrict every character in magazine fiction to possessing, corporeally, just hands, feet, and a face." In 1915 they record that Sinclair Lowis, then reading for Doran Co., rejected "The Cream of the Jest", "because the general public simply cannot be induced to buy novels about unattractive and ignoble people." They comment in passing upon the era of the twenties, when "we writing persons, upon...
Such slams at Air Bureau efficiency kept the atmosphere of the inquiry tense but quiet for four days, with only one consolation for the accused Federal agency: The committee exonerated the Government airway keeper at Kirksville, Mo., near the scene of the Cutting crash. On the fifth day, however, as the committee agreed to extend its inquiry, came testimony of a different sort which finally drew blood in the exasperated yowl from Assistant Director Martin...
...hushed away into a mental hospital. The front line had changed his oldfashioned, literary poems into the brutal realism of Counter-Attack, whose taste was too strong for many a stay-at-home. His autobiography (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer) was a quiet masterpiece of emotion recollected in post-War tranquillity. Now, even for Veteran Sassoon, the War is long over. In middle-age (he is 49), he lives in retirement near Stonehenge, writes gently minor poems that will seem old-fashioned to most readers of 1936. Of the 35 poems in Vigils...