Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puffer would say in a quiet voice, "this is Mr. Puffer...
...Simultaneously, another plane approached from the East. "Please delay landing until further orders while Westbound plane comes in," radioed the operator to Pilot Collison. There was no answer. The operator signaled again. Still there came no sound of the pilot's voice, no hum of motors in the quiet, clear night...
...turn down a Nazi's scholarship (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934) or protest a law requiring teachers to swear allegiance to Federal and State Constitutions (TIME, April 15). He may not involve the University in politics. Last week, therefore, Dr. Conant hurried home from a southern trip to quiet an equally earnest but less fastidious professor...
...bother Mr. Vanderbilt so much because he knows his bankers have no intention of calling their loans. Indeed, with money-lending what it is today, the bankers are only too glad to accommodate him. Behind his much-publicized, diligent playing with yachts and bridge hands, Mr. Vanderbilt is a quiet-loving, diligent businessman who applies his able mind to the affairs of his clan's biggest heritage, the New York Central Lines. Each winter business day he conscientiously posts himself at his executive desk in a gilt-topped tower straddling Park Avenue. And while Mr. Jones worries about...
...MEMORY SERVES-Sacha Guitry- Doubleday, Doran ($3). By the time Sacha Guitry was five years old he had become accustomed to the strange passions that periodically seized his father. During a quiet dinner the boy would be startled to observe Lucien Guitry frown fiercely, cry out for no reason such things as, "My lord, you are a nobleman and I am but a commoner, yet I dare tell you that any man who insults a woman is a coward!" Or. with a melting tenderness, the father would stare unseeingly at his son and murmur, "Clementine, I would give my life...