Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Gamelin is a world authority on Napoleon's movements. It is his quiet boast that he can recite every Army order Napoleon issued - and to whom. But, although he is quite aware that the Po route may some day be his own, the Italian maneuvers were not his chief interest last week. Since he took charge of her armies, France has acquired a possible new border to defend or cross, the border between France and Spain. Having vainly urged Léon Blum to pitch in with the Loyalists and lick Francisco Franco in 1936, General Gamelin...
General Gamelin is very easily approached, his voice is quiet and he is always calm. ("It's no use getting angry at things, it's a matter of indifference to them.") His well-trained memory is still prodigious. He is said not only to know every road near any French frontier, but also to know by name and sight every French officer down through the rank of colonel. He is not chummy with his staff, but treats them with what they call "benevolent formality...
Died. Charles Steele, 82, lawyer, unobtrusive partner (since 1900) in the banking firm J. P. Morgan & Co. ; after a long illness; in Westbury, L. I. A quiet philanthropist, he gave $500,000 to Manhattan's St. Thomas Church for its choir school...
Birthdays. Benito Mussolini, 56; George Bernard Shaw, 83, quietly, in London, England; Henry Ford, 76, quietly, in Dearborn, Mich.; Booth Tarkington, 70, quietly, in Kennebunkport, Me. (Informed that it was Mussolini's birthday, Author Tarkington observed: "I have led a nice quiet life, which is more than...
When at last the correspondents coaxed skeptical Chinese to take them to the front in a quiet sector, "we found ourselves discussing the poetry of Robert Bridges. The Testament of Beauty can seldom have been quoted in less appropriate surroundings." In China's wildwest Sian, they met a Swiss doctor who had attended D. H. Lawrence. Back in Hankow, a Chinese lady gave them a lacquer box containing an ivory skull for Virginia Woolf...