Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the performance last week there was a family reunion, quiet talk of the mother who died two years ago, of Marcella Sembrich who was Dusolina's teacher, of the late Daniel Mayer, the manager who started her on her career, made it his business to see that she read profitable books, helped her with her programs and her costumes, developed her taste. Absent also was Brother Vittorio, now a recognized composer studying in Italy on a Pix de Rome fellowship...
...getting Mr. Snare mellowed into "Father Snare," his club historically changed the mores of Havana's better class. Today week-end drunks are anything but smart. And golf and tennis unchaperoned have become the birthright of Cuban debutantes, if they disport themselves at the select, discreet and quiet Havana Country Club...
...Missouri a rousing build-up as guest speaker by singing Sweet Adeline. Guest Speaker Middlebush fidgeted, rose, exploded: "That song arouses no sentiment in me. When I was elected to the presidency of the University of Missouri a few months ago I was forced to give up my quiet home on the outskirts of Columbia and move down on the campus. Every Saturday night since then I have heard the last passing Sweet Adeline never earlier than 3 o'clock in the morning. Last week I bought five acres of land on the Lake of the Ozarks...
...twin villages of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The houses have brightly painted walls. The inns have tiled stoves in the dining rooms. Woodcutters in green felt hats, puffing pipes that reach down to their waists, use oxcarts to haul pine logs down the snowy mountain roads. Last week the wintry quiet of Garmisch-Partenkirchen was pleasantly shattered by an event which mystified the woodcutters as much as it delighted the innkeepers by accounting for the presence in the town of some 50,000 visitors, including Realmleader Hitler himself. The event was the opening of the Fourth Olympic Winter Games...
...have his hand forced, plots a dangerous coup. Because he lets the wrong people in on his secret the plot is nipped in the bud. Sacker's arrest and execution is the signal for a general blood purge. Before it is over and England shudders into regimented quiet, Liberal Andrew is glad to make his escape to Norway, even though it means he will never see his own country again...