Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even if she does have some shadowy connections with the underworld. Fundamentally it is one of those things which the playwrighting Spewacks diagnose as "Boy meets Girl; boy loses girl; boy gets girl"; wholesome, mild and quite safe. The humor is light and fairly well paced. It's nice quiet reassuring amusement with a mellowness apparently aimed straight at the maiden aunt section of the audience, which must be considerable...
...into the national spotlight. She rarely visited Washington, is almost unknown there. Of her qualifications to serve as one of its rulers, the nation last week knew only that Rose McConnell Long has been a loyal, patient wife, a devoted mother to her two sons and daughter, a quiet, retiring antithesis of her late husband...
...public with a dose so tremendous. The cycle at Carnegie Hall would require seven stiff programs, one a week for seven weeks. Pianist Schnabel is not a glamorous figure, but a stubby, square-headed little Austrian who stalks woodenly on stage, seats himself leisurely at his piano, waits for quiet, proceeds to play as if he had no audience. When Schnabel decides on a program, his invariable comment is: "Who wants to come will come." It was to be expected that earnest young music students would be on hand for his series, meticulously following each note of the score. Surprise...
...honey and the ghosts of the bees that made it stung the crew to death? What if the silk worms, roses, bees went on strike? What if Manhattan's pigeons were all killed? Miss Crane is fond of alliteration's artful aid: "Clerk and crier quaffed the quiet of the quarry." When she feels like it, she can rhyme "thorn" with "faun," play hob with King's College English. Readers who like lilt will find plenty of it, in the great tradition of Robert W. Service and Edgar A. Guest...
Sunday, while all is quiet at Hanover, the Harvard snow artists will journey to Woodstock, Vermont, for downhill and slalom races. This meet, held under the auspices of the Woodstock Ski Runners, is entirely an individual one, so that, although college men may be competing, there will be no college teams entered...