Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first thing German business needs is peace and quiet. It must have a feeling of absolute legal security. It must know that work and its returns are guaranteed. The interferences in business which occurred at first, perhaps as a result of too much zeal, have become intolerable and have now been abolished...
...seemed to go glimmering. But Adolf Hitler, with his tirades against Marxism and his itch to have back the Polish Corridor, played straight into Comrade Litvinov's hands. Last week while Colonel Beck lavished congratulations on the roly-poly Russian, demoted "Briand of the North" Zaleski watched with quiet satisfaction from his vantage point as president of Warsaw's largest private bank. In Moscow the official Press purported to have inside Scandinavian information that Comrade Litvinov will win the next Nobel Peace Prize...
...Landi in the Hepburn role of Antiope, dashing young warrior and gallant lover. This reviewer last saw the lovely patrician Miss Landi as a major Saint in Cecil DeMille's evangelistic triumph, "The Sign of the Cross". At that time he decided that Miss Landi had few equals for quiet feminine charm, for quiet sincere acting, and self-effacing hard work. To pick her for the leading light of the Amazonian younger set was as much of a mistake as it might be to put Douglas Fairbanks in the part of Sapian. Yet she was capable, spirited, and a success...
...large man and impatient of all these peccadilloes. His spirit rides a swift charger and he would be off somewhere in the country, dawdling in some old pasture, climbing a hill, or floating down some tree-lined river in a canoe. Learning is sensitive and must be wood in quiet places, not commardeered by signing one's name six times. In the country thoughts come rythmically, easily, and smoking an old pipe is like a forgotten pleasure suddenly discovered...
...ROCKEFELLER'S CITY - Archibald MacLeish - John Day ($.25). U. S. Poet-of-the-year is Archibald Mac Leish. whose Conquistador (TIME. April 11, 1932) won him this year's Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Like Proseman Ernest Hemingway, Poet MacLeish writes in a masculine style of quiet violence: his sparsely punctuated assonant verse often sounds as if it were spoken out of the cor ner of his mouth. That the greatest U. S. captains are not industrial, in Poet Mac-Leish's opinion, is indicated by his title. The six poems in Frescoes for Mr. Rochefeller...