Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Rhode Island was quiet and the worst of its jitters had passed. The Assembly adjourned sine die. Governor Green still was without the power to call Federal troops...
...southern circuit judge who takes mildly to Bourbon whiskey. Will Rogers, too old to be the main love interest, assumes again, as he did in Handy Andy, the role of matchmaker for younger members of the cast. Presented with dialog patterned after Irvin S. Cobb's quiet Judge Priest stories and permitted but a minimum of head-ducking. Funnyman Rogers is a less hackneyed philosopher than he was in earlier films. Time is the slow Kentucky '90s. Plot is concerned with a judge who is fond of his nephew who is fond of the pretty but poor white...
While tall, dark, quiet-spoken Arthur Schwartz was taking a degree at Columbia Law School, he was also teaching English in Manhattan's High School of Commerce. Today he occasionally helps Partner Dietz with a fractious lyric. When he made enough money in Law to give it up, he became a composer. He dislikes all opera but Wagner, favors Strauss, Schumann, Brahms, Hoagie Carmichael. When he makes enough money from his music, he intends producing straight drama. He is now writing the music for a Dietz adaptation of The Three-Cornered...
...Like hundreds of other schoolmasters, he was just back from vacation to prepare for another term. A few boys and proctors were back too, but most of them would not arrive until school opened the following week. The 2,500-acre campus, in the hills near Northfield, lay summer quiet. As was his nightly habit, Headmaster Speer sat with notebook in hand planning his next day's schedule...
...monastery there. In the summer of 1916 they were transferred to the neighboring Ile d'Yeu, kept there until April 1919. Ex-Prisoner Kuncz has no stories of atrocities to tell, recalls no tortures but cold, filth, monotony, celibacy, imprisonment. The cumulative strength of his story lies in its quiet matter-of-factness. which magnifies no pettiness, shows through a clear lens a dreadfully long perspective...