Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nights later, at a reception in Manhattan by the American Jewish Congress, Dr. Ludwig boasted that the Nazi burning of his books and those of many another Jew and Pacifist, including Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), is helping to boost their world sales, quickening the flow of royalty checks to Switzerland where Friends Ludwig and Remarque bank their money in gold francs. "The night of the public burning of the books," said Author Ludwig. "I invited my friend, Erich Maria Remarque, to drink with me. We opened our oldest Rhine wine, turned on the radio, heard...
Loughran's "end" was a percentage of the gate receipts in excess of Sharkey's guarantee; and less than 8,000 persons felt like paying to see a fight which could decide but one thing: which of two outworn heavyweights was due for immediate oblivion. Loughran, a quiet, well-liked fellow, had never been a powerful threat in the ring since he stepped up from the light-heavyweight class. Sharkey knocked him out four years ago. And now talkative, wealthy Sharkey, only three months ago the champion, had left his last claim to importance on the floor...
...poor drunken wretch whom Sobersides addressed as "Dear Dick." The Vagabond bethought himself of Dean Swift, and would have visited that worthy, but his attire was so disarranged by a jar of slops flung from an upper window that he betook himself instead to Vauxhall, and rested in a quiet corner of the garden, seeing but unseen. This morning he will ascertain the views of Professor Abbott on the culture of Anne's reign...
...with great detail on the early lives of his subjects and hence to compress his commentary into a meagre allotment of pages. But no reader can escape the fact that the author does keen justice to his characters. "Jemmy" Madison, for example, "the withered little apple-John," was "small, quiet, precise... In print he had authority and effectiveness; but he had neither of these qualities as chief executive of the nation;" William Howard Taft was a "genial, unambitious man who never got over the surprise at finding himself president;" Wilson's "chief character-defect... (was) his failure to remember that...
Ramona's favorite sport is watching other people play golf and tennis. "The boys take me along because I keep quiet. I can't play a darn thing myself," she confessed. "My few idiosyncrasies, if you want to know them are: I always wear all black or white: I never go on the other side of a tree or post when anyone is passing; I like almost anything: and I've never fallen in love--maybe because I don't know many Harvard...