Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna there was little or no sensation. Successive Austrian Governments have been headed for years and years by devout Roman Catholics who in their quiet way have done several things to foster the return of His Apostolic Majesty. Under Chancellor Dollfuss the word "republic"' was stricken from Austria's Constitution. So was the phrase "the country's laws emanate from the people." The Constitution now reads "the country's laws emanate from God" and the House of Habsburg has always ruled "by the grace...
Next day at City Hall, tall, quiet General Tsai, who speaks no English, produced a startling impression on Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia who had heard that his guest is a man of 41, the veteran of 172 Chinese campaigns in which he has been more than 50 times under fire...
...absinthe makers were permitted to continue making absinthe for export. France wasn't worked about what absinthe did to anybody except the French in France! As a matter of fact one, two or three drinks of absinthe a day never hurt anybody. Absinthe has definite medicinal properties. It will quiet an upset stomach...
Candles in the Storm, despite its bloody climax, is a quiet tale of people who go to a summer colony to work. Its value does not depend upon its plot which holds its fragments together, but upon occasional flashes of insight into character...
...Little, Brown ($2.50). Books that win fat prizes generally get a big circulation, but not always the acclaim of critics. There should be little complaint, however, with the judges who picked Dusk at The Grove for this year's $10,000 Atlantic Prize Contest. The still waters of this quiet novel run deep. Author Rogers deals sparingly with what his people do, more with what they say, most with what they think. Ranging from 1909 to 1931 in a series of episodes, the story takes for its theme family loyalty in a changing world. Among the Warings all the black...