Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time Radio helped itself to the columns of newspapers. When the Press protested such flagrant thieving, an arrangement was made whereby Radio was supplied with reports from Associated Press, United Press and International News Service, to be broadcast with full credit. The front remained reasonably quiet until election night...
Metropolitan: "Judge Priest"--Will Rogers, who is rapidly becoming our favorite screen philosopher and pater familias, in a very pleasing story of life in a quiet little Kentucky hamlet where the chief topic of conversation is still the Civil War and those "damned Yankees." Anita Louise will make you wish that Hollywood were a bit more accessible...
...closed doors in the resolutions committee room. Lined up for the industrial union were hulking, square-faced John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers and tall, persuasive Charles P. Howard of the International Typographical Union. Opponents of committing A. F. of L. to vertically were President William Green, a quiet-spoken reactionary, and Matthew Woll, an overdressed, Red-hating A. F. of L. vice president...
...commanders, who could not always be relied on to use their own judgment about the details. His staff-work was not nearly as efficient as his enemy's; he sometimes made poor use of his artillery and cavalry. Many an anecdote bears witness to Lee's quiet good manners, his inability to bluster. Riding over the field of the second battle of Manassas he came upon a marauding Mississippian asked him why he was not with his command. Roundly cursed as "a cowardly Virginia cavalryman," Lee laughed, rode away "subdued." As he watched the critical charge at Chancellorsville...
...alter the balance. Then one may be smarter or duller than natural, thinner or fatter, more brave or more backward. A woman with an overactive thyroid is a busybody with a quick pulse, a temperature slightly above normal. She wants to wolf all kinds of food. The doctor may quiet her by dosing her neck with x-rays or the surgeon may cut out part of her goitre. Dosing with hormones is less brutal than surgery. Doctors begged pharmacologists to give them in pure form the active principles of the endocrine glands. When Chemist Edwin Calvin Kendall of the Mayo...