Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ghostly ladies in the Smithsonian gallery. Pale Ellen Axson Wilson has joined Mmes Taft and Roosevelt in their glass case, while her successor, Edith Boiling Gait Wilson stands with Florence Kling Harding and Grace Goodhue Coolidge, whose short skirt and sorority pin would have mystified many in that quiet company...
Sunday was an unusually quiet day for Mrs. Roosevelt-friends for lunch and supper, then the night train for New York, where she attended an Iturbi concert...
Thus did whiskey-producing Britain greet the 5-to-4 vote by which Utah last week became the 36th Repeal State.* Americans, knowing for some time that Repeal was a certainty, were not excited or much surprised that quiet Utah should have been the deciding State. Pennsylvania and Ohio were the 34th and 35th-Pennsylvania by a majority of 1,000,000 votes, Ohio by 800,000. Had Utah gone Dry the 36th State would have been Bourbon-producing Kentucky, where Repeal was last week ushered in with violence and bloodshed...
Louis Lepine, "King of the Paris streets," is dead. For eighteen years this suave, dapper little man ruled the greatest of continental cities as Prefect of Police, tamed the apaches, and with velvet-gloved truncheon put down each uprising of a notoriously restless populace. It was the quiet, tense efficiency of his regime which inspired the novels of Gaborlau, the mystery of Stevenson's "Suicide Club," and the dashing career of Arsene Lupin...
...given point. This he did with a handful of gendarmes and his "mental suggestion maneuvers." From early morning on, scattered marchers bound for a meeting place were systematically deflected down side streets. Detachments of soldiery passing briskly back and forth through troubled districts gave the appearance of a quiet mobilization. Emergency first aid stations, with white stretchers placed conspicuously outside, did much to soothe a fevered populace. On the cobblestones of the vast Place de la Republique, mounted hussars eight or ten abreast, the "Mouquin Merry-go-round," trotted slowly about sweeping little knots of agitators before them...