Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mighty crescendoes. Leader of the Moscow Cathedral Choir is slender, personable Vicolas Afonsky, a Tsarist army officer. The featured soloist is Kapiton Zaporojetz a massive basso profundo whom the Tsar's young daughters used to call "that rosy milk-fed piglet." Conductor Afonsky did his job in a quiet, self-effacing way last week. Basso Zaporojetz emitted cavernous tones to enrich the ensemble. But the best solo work was turned in by one Madame Pavlenko, a big earthy contralto who stepped to the footlights, closed her eyes, intoned the Gretchanmoff Credo with rare devotional fervor...
...hard to grieve over the precarious state of the Passamaquoddy dam project; even its sponsors seem unnaturally nonchalant while their child is being strangled, Perhaps, in truth, since Quoddy has served its purpose, its death--if only it be a quiet one--would be welcomed by the embarrassed parents. One might even suspect - the analogy is tempting-that the murdering technicalities are merely hired thugs, who will discretely disappear after their work is done, Nevertheless, little Quoddy must depart unsung; its story is enlightening and should be preserved for a wondering posterity...
Forty-five years ago when Winifred Sweet was a slim, pretty young woman with red hair and blue eyes, the Examiner assigned her to a children's playground party. There she met a "tall, handsome, well-groomed young man" who helped her quiet a howling moppet. Back in the office she met the tall young man again, answered brusquely when he asked: "What became of the Bull of Bashan?" She then learned that the tall young man was her boss, William Randolph Hearst, who had lately bought "that new paper on Montgomery Street." Since then she has never been...
Skinny, smiling, bearded Doremus Jessup was editor of the Fort Beulah (Vt.) Daily Informer, an old-fashioned liberal whose paper expressed his independent views. He lived contentedly with his motherly wife, his belligerently outspoken daughter, enjoyed a quiet love affair with the Fort Beulah feminine rebel despite his 60 years. As an alert editor, Doremus was interested in the rise of a Western Senator, Berzelius Windrip, commonly called "Buzz," a bubbling and buoyant individual whose personality and career closely resembled those of the late Huey Long. Windrip ruled unchallenged in his own State, built roads, enlarged the militia until...
...readers seeking a vivid and imaginative Soviet novelist who could describe the wild and involved battles of civil war without lapsing into melodrama or propaganda found their man last year in Mikhail Sholokhov (And Quiet Flows the Don). In Seeds of Tomorrow Sholokhov has written the story of a collective farm with robust humor, with good-natured mockery at the zeal and pompousness of Communists, with shrewd sympathy for the bewilderment of peasants...