Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned that only the Rockefellers and the Fords were richer than their Secretary of the Treasury; that he had made his wealth in aluminum, steel, coal, oil, banks; that he invested his profits in the finest of old masters; that personally he was a shy, modest man with a quiet charm. When he started to reduce the Public Debt, with a consequent reduction in taxation, enthusiastic G.O. Partisans tagged him with the silly title of "greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton." To cap his long service with a special honor President Hoover appointed Mr. Mellon Ambassador...
...could have had no higher recommendation. In the past ten years the name of Jean Julius Christian Sibelius has spread far beyond Finland's narrow borders. Authoritative critics now rate him as one of the world's great composers and respect him all the more for his quiet independent ways. Few great musicians have refused to advertise themselves, to bask in the hot spotlight of the world's leading music capitals. But Sibelius, who was born of Finnish farming stock, nursed on Finnish folksongs, has remained resolutely Finnish to this day. In his course of study...
...smiling, quiet-spoken, curly-haired youth of 21, Stan Kostka has been dubbed "King Kong" by his hometown sportswriters because he is wedge-shaped and his arms seem to hang, apelike, below his knees. Only 5 ft. 10½ in., his official weight is 210 lb. Rival coaches suspect that this is possibly some 20 lb. short of reality...
...knew its Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff chiefly as a composer who patterned himself after Tchaikovsky and wrote gentle, nostalgic music according to 19th Century traditions. The U. S. knows Rachmaninoff best as a pianist, a career forced on him by exile and the loss of his fortune. But in his quiet unpublicized way Rachmaninoff has gone on writing music. In Baltimore last week a Rapsodie which he composed last summer was given its premiére by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Because Rachmaninoff was there to solo, the audience was completely satisfied with the oldtime combination of pianistic glitter...
...pictures. Cagney suggested a variation to Director Ray Enright. In The St. Louis Kid he wears bandages on his hands, butts his way through brawls with his head. In other respects, the picture is standard Cagney entertainment, a rapid, realistic fantasy about a truck-driver who wants a quiet weekend in the country. Best shot: Cagney being welcomed into a village jail by a warden who loves company...