Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither Prime Minister Baldwin nor Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain believes in taking either Press or Public into the remotest outskirts of his confidence. After a five-hour sitting the Cabinet rose. Again only Scot MacDonald had anything to say. "I am very cheery and quiet and cool," he burbled. "We have a very clear mind as to what is to be done...
...duty to spend it. But after the failure of The Ladder the Davis successes grew fewer. His North & South Development Co. continued to wildcat in the Darst Creek and Buckeye Fields, but brought in no spectacular wells. Promoter Davis traveled less frequently, gave fewer dinner parties, confined himself to quiet bridge games and an occasional art lecture. All of his remaining capital went into the drilling of hugely expensive "deep oil" holes which invariably turned...
...expense, the nation's Press would almost certainly have been more indignant than it was at his action in driving the luckless veterans out of Washington with tear gas and bayonets. If the conscientious New York Times had not last fortnight dispatched a man to investigate and report, the quiet but costly fashion in which President Roosevelt dissipated the threat of another Bonus Army would probably have escaped ail public notice...
...such exuberance, Governor Tannery makes a musty hobby of 17th and 18th Century first editions on which he writes dull, learned monographs. Dressed in the conventional black of French functionaries, he often noses unnoticed among the bookstalls along the Seine, seeking a bargain-treasure which he bears off in quiet triumph to his admiring wife and daughters three...
...Stefan, impressionable baker who could not endure the sight of hungry people looking through his window at freshly baked bread, escapes to the country where the "soft and quiet undulation of the wheat fields" gives him a momentary vision of unmeasured miles of wheat, of stores of food so enormous that no one need go hungry...