Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executive the tribute of their presence. After all, this was but a small price to pay in order to win the support of constituencies who still admire the President's policies. And so the impressive welcoming ceremonies went on and these same magnanimous Republicans must have enjoyed a nice quiet laugh all to themselves at the expense of the naughty boys of the opposition whose "welcome dear teacher" rang somewhat false after their participation in the nasty little pranks which were engineered during his absence. Some of the apostates may reflect perhaps that the President would have preferred the triumph...
...successor, Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, did not inherit his father's flamboyant sense of salesmanship. Quiet and methodical, he likes to fiddle with machinery and motor boats, keep out of the limelight. But in the dark days of February 1933 he astounded conservative businessmen by upping Wrigley wages 25%. And he was the first to put the Blue Eagle on his gum packages. Last week Gummaker Wrigley again made news by announcing a $1,000,000 employes' "assurance" plan. "In talking with workers in our factories," said he, "I discovered that their chief worry...
...came back to Gettysburg from the West to bury his grandfather. No Copperhead but an inconsistent pacifist, Bale had done his share of Indian fighting but refused to have anything to do with the Civil War. He settled down in his grandfather's house, prepared to have a quiet time for a while, in spite of his neighbor's nudges. Two events shattered his peace. First, a friend's wife fell in love with him, practically asking him to seduce her. And on July 1, 1863, Lee's advance guard met Buford's cavalry...
...Outline of History (1926) has sold 684,000 copies and William J. Durant's The Story of Philosophy (1927), 545,000. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's We (1927) ran up a sale of 594,000. Latest book listed is Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929; 564,300). Only Nobel-Prizewinners: Henryk Sienkewicz, with Quo Vadis (1896; 504,600); Sinclair Lewis, with Main Street...
...with circular and triangular bosses laid out in a honeycomb design. Heated to 1,000° C., the mold was topped by a beehive-shaped, three-doored covering. At 8 a. m. outside the plant a crowd of 4,000 had gathered. At 8:30 on the pouring floor quiet, pious Dr. George Vest McCauley, the company's physicist in charge of operations, and genial Dr. John C. Hostetter, director of research, saw that everything was ready. In the deafening roar of gas blowers in the furnace and ventilating blowers cooling the factory Dr. McCauley could not make himself...