Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt Administration had never had much support from quiet, sly Mr. Stephens, but now it tried to save him. Secretary Marvin H. Mclntyre sent him a wire elaborately requesting his presence at the White House in the middle of the campaign. Third candidate was Representative Ross Collins, who went out in the first primary but Senator Stephens' lead was so slight that a run-off was called...
...electric gong signaled the beginning of the concert. An attendant notified Mrs. Coolidge and she straightened her leopard shawl, took her usual place four pews from the front. Of the quiet string music she heard nothing. But the programs were enough gratification as her mind reviewed them. In three days, of the 23 works played, 13 were dedicated to her, five were first performances anywhere, four first in the U. S. On the wall was a new bronze tablet, proclaiming Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge the "fairy godmother of chamber music." The unfamiliar harmonies bewildered many of the Berkshire neighbors but they...
...dead right on the first ten miles. But on the second he went decidedly haywire, heading out to sea at right angles to the true course. None of the experts could figure what he was going. Some suggested he was going fishing; others said he was seeking a quiet place for a picnic lunch, with olives and devilled eggs and everything. Still others said he was simply a poor navigator and skipper...
...Bounty's last port of call. But when chance offered, something always turned up to prevent their going. Last summer, when he heard of a schooner which was to touch there, Hall decided to go even though Nordhoff could not accompany him. The Tale of a Shipwreck, a quiet, rambling narrative that tells not only of his voyage and shipwreck but of how and why he came to go to the South Seas in the first place, is a book that will be wanted by all amateurs of the sea and sea-narratives...
...Bounty. Shot down behind the German lines in the spring of 1918, Hall spent the last months of the War as a prisoner. After the Armistice he collaborated with Nordhoff on a history of the Lafayette Escadrille. Both were tired of the U. S., went to look for peace & quiet in the South Seas, spent a year visiting various islands, finally decided on Tahiti, where they settled permanently, married native women. Since then they have had between them six children, a dozen books, four of them collaborations...