Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, consider themselves most fortunate to have so ripe a sovereign as Wilhelmina, whose wisdom and sagacity in her constitutional sphere are immense. Contrary to some mistaken impressions overseas, King George in his last years was a terror to certain British statesmen because of His Majesty's quiet strength of character and experience in getting his way by imperceptible means. He figured largely in setting up the ingenious contraption known as Great Britain's "National Government." His will was instrumental in having the general election held just in time to permit His Majesty to die happy...
...before all London watched King Edward VIII follow the body of his father, George V to Westminster Hall last week, a quiet company gathered in nearby Westminster Abbey to watch the cremated ashes of Rudyard Kipling, housed in a marble urn, disappear into the shallow loam under the paved flooring where are mixed the dust of Tennyson, Dickens and Samuel Johnson. At the end of the quiet service the Abbey choir soared into Kipling's stirring Recessional. To honor Britain's great Imperial Poet, the third man in the 20th Century to be buried in the Poets...
Toscanini began his career as a conductor 50 years ago next June when he was an obscure young cellist of 19, playing in the orchestra at the Rio de Janeiro opera. One night the regular leader was unable to appear and some one suddenly thought of the quiet little Italian who never used a score. Toscanini went to the stand in a borrowed frock coat many sizes too big, conducted Aida completely from memory. Lately an aged Brazilian critic attempted to describe the perfection of that performance. Toscanini's comment: "Ah, but he is wrong. I made two mistakes...
...seemed an unlikely spot to start a plant producing a heavy mechanical product for world-wide distribution. Harry Banfield's old contracting partner and predecessor as Iron Fireman's president was killed in an airplane accident in 1928. Mr. Banfield was badly hurt in the same crackup. Quiet, reserved, he still likes to build bridges on the side, sometimes does. Vice President Edward C. Sammons was named "Portland's First Citizen for 1935." Another high-powered Iron Fireman is General Sales Manager Clarence Theodore Burg, an ardent Rotarian who made all his salesmen wear flaming red neckties...
...admires Oliver's integrity without wishing to imitate him. When Mario leaves Harvard hastily, after an actress is discovered in his roo'm, Oliver befriends him, straightens out his finances, feels no moral revulsion. Yet as Oliver grows to manhood he learns that in each of his quiet, passionless love affairs, the image of Mario stands between him and the object of his desire. In the case of his first love, he is rebuffed, not because his sweetheart loves Mario in person, but because she is attracted to the impulsive, spontaneous life that Mario represents, senses its absence...