Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President says quiet-like, 'Sylvester, I'll investigate and you'll hear from me.' " Sylvester Harris did hear. The Columbus, Miss. Negro who thought he was telephoning President Roosevelt at the White House to save his mortgaged farm got prompt aid from the New Orleans Land Bank (TIME, March 12). Last week Sylvester Harris seized a chance to show his gratitude...
...spring of 1853, just as the Big Ditch is freed of ice, Dan Harrow (Henry Fonda), a big, quiet farm boy, signs on as a mule driver for the summer. In Hennessy's strictly moral canal hotel at Rome (immoral canal hotels could be identified by their white chimneys), Dan meets Molly Larkins (June Walker). She is a pretty minx born to the Erie water. The conflict between "notional" Molly and simple Dan is the traditional one between water folk and land folk...
...woman who was arranging her hair when Orpheus began to play. She suggests a worldly, sated figure to whom spiritual beauty has suddenly been revealed. A youth lifts his hand as if he were trying to catch the music. A man, holding a bird, motions it to be quiet while he listens...
...German which he had to learn years ago. A pioneer advocate of weekday religious instruction for children, Dr. Wenner has written many a tome, still doaders gently among his books and papers. Last week he spoke briefly at Christ Church at an anniversary service which was much more quiet than the one on his birthday last May. Of his long service Pastor Wenner said simply: "I stay here because I like the Lutheran Church, and because I like the Germans, and because I am a minister of Jesus Christ. I love Jesus Christ, and I find myself able...
Auguste Dupuis, known in his adopted city of Timbuctoo as Père Yakouba, is an old (69) and somewhat remorseful man now. He was never pious. When he first went to Africa (1890) as a strapping young missionary he had already a quiet reputation as a priest who did not take his vows of celibacy very seriously...