Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bells, bonging for order, that the present bell is firmly screwed to the desk, rung by a lever at the top. Like a head waiter, President Bouisson has spent his working hours in full dress. When the bonging of his bell or the bellow of his voice failed to quiet a parliamentary riot, he had one last way to restore order. He clapped his hat on his bald head. When the President of the Chamber of Deputies puts on his silk topper the Chamber is automatically adjourned...
...reputedly worth $1,000,000, thought differently. So did local politicians who realized that he had his Congressional district sewed up so tight that after the first one he never had to make another campaign speech in it. So did national politicians who had watched from the inside his quiet march from a Texas greenhorn in 1903 to Speaker of the House in 1931 upon the death of his great & good Republican friend Nicholas Longworth. But Jack Garner, with his love for poker and baseball, his fondness for a good highball with good friends, his habit of going...
Outside it was still pitch dark. Bowen Tufts slipped into his overcoat, put on his hat, stepped out of doors. He walked across the lawn and entered the garage, shutting the doors tight behind him. When the motor of his Packard sedan settled down to a quiet hum, he climbed out of the front seat, walked to the rear of the garage. Carefully taking off his hat, he lay down on the cement floor, a foot from the purring exhaust. At seven in the morning the maid found the motor still running. Bowen Tufts was dead...
...glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko (Men in War), France's Henri Barbusse (Le Feu), England's C. E. Montague (Disenchantment), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Robert Graves (Goodbye to All That), Germany's Fritz von Unruh (Way of Sacrifice), Erich Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), Arnold Zweig (The Case of Sergeant Grischa), Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh), America's John Dos Passes (Three Soldiers) have all added to the slowly mounting testimony as to what degree of murder war actually is. Last week another U. S. author...
...Bilbo should be reported on the sport pages where it belongs. The Southern conscience has never honestly faced the Negro question: the Civil War amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) should either be legally repudiated or enforced. "On the whole," Author Cason concludes, "the South would profit from a nice, quiet revolution . . . not a Communistic revolt . . . a revision of the region's implanted ideas, a clarification of issues, a realistic and direct recognition of existing social problems, a redirection of the South's courage and audacity, and a determination that the Southern conscience shall be accorded the reverence...