Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colossus of the North, reformed into a Good Neighbor, would not forcibly interfere in its affairs. In theory this means that, in such a case as Barletta's, the U. S. would let Mussolini do his own spanking, send his own warboat to Santo Domingo, where Dictator Trujillo quietly runs one of the world's most efficient little Terrors. However, in practice, an Italian warboat in the Caribbean would hurt U. S. prestige as much as it would hurt Trujillo. For that reason the State Department last week called in the Dominican Republic's Minister to the U. S., Rafael...
...Austen commends the King's "quiet devotion to duty," and one must agree, rejoicing that he has been sensible enough to present the King as a good man in a difficult position, and has not attempted the unreal figure of a Colossus dwarfing the men of his time...
Silence in the observation train. The entire flotills of destroyers, patrol boats, canoes, yachts, and excursion steamers which follow the wake of the racing shells seem to pause in absolute quiet. Clearly, Referee Curtiss voice rings out for all to hear, "Are you ready...
...famed, sharp-eyed founder of the Oxford Groups ("Buchmanites") practically admits in his speeches, the guidance of God often comes to him in the form of choppy, telegraphic memoranda. In Oslo last March Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman declared: "Before I landed in Norway it came constantly in my Quiet Times...
...been a sinister "nighttime" character, who would not go for a walk on a spring day because "the world burns inside us, not outside us." The father's queerness had taken various forms in his children: Emilie had left home to pleasure, not better herself; Susanne was a quiet religious maniac; Otto wanted to be an artist but had to work for his living...