Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florence. There the Red army of attack began to hammer a Blue defending force. The object of Italy's General Staff was to test in the nearest approach to battle conditions that they could create all the elaborate mechanical devices with which munitions makers have been whiling away the quiet years. Troops will advance this week under shell barrages. There will be clouds of real tear gas to penalize those slow with their masks. Benito Mussolini is particularly anxious to find out if his newly organized celeri (speedy) divisions are really as efficient as they appear on paper...
When Truck Driver Campbell first became loquacious, Lena, his blonde, 26-year-old wife, was astonished. He had been a quiet, moody fellow all the eight years they were married. Lately he had begun to worry because of trouble with other Columbus truck drivers. Maybe, she thought, the time last year he bumped his head while unloading butter had something to do with his sudden talkativeness. She took him up to his parents' home at rustic little Edison a few miles north of Columbus...
...into their work as little individuality as the day crew of an automobile assembly line, DeMille is not the only one who has a method of his own. Any directory of directors should include Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven, Farewell to Arms), Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade, Berkeley Square). Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), Ernst Lubitsch who is currently making The Merry Widow. There are at least a dozen or so others whose pictures have, constantly or intermittently, been distinctive if not distinguished, whose names on a marquee are likely to mean more than their actors...
...Francisco's general strike last month, quiet-spoken Publisher George Toland Cameron of the Chronicle took rooms for his newshawks at a hotel across the street from his plant, filled his basement with foodstuffs, bided his time. When the strike hit the city's food supply, he fed his employes in the Chronicle's cooking school on the second floor of his Gothic building, cheered up photographers who returned from the embattled Embarcadero with smashed cameras, had a pat on the back for red-eyed, coughing newshawks who had been through the No-Man's Land of teargas, brickbats, bullets...
...quiet little Pasadena, Calif, one day last week a blast almost materialized that would have shaken the sober townfolk out of their skins. Two blocks from Pasadena's busiest corner, Crown City Plating Co. electroplates chromium, gold, brass, silver, copper. A swart little man named Wallace Foreman was mixing sulphuric acid and glycerin to make an electrolyte for plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid...