Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intensely quiet six-footer with blue eyes, greying hair, lean frame. He hunts, fishes, rides when he has the chance (although always an infantryman), devours history and biography. He loathes big Army parties, prefers to go picnicking with his second wife and her children. On duty he is severe, demands top-flight work in short hours. "Nobody ever has an original thought after 3 p. m.," he says...
York World's Fair their own Empire's exhibits will consume most of the visitors' time, to the exclusion of fun on the Midway. They must leave in time to motor to Hyde Park for dinner at Mother Roosevelt's. After a quiet weekend there, they will entrain for Canada to embark for home on the battle cruiser Repulse...
Tutoring has a place at Yale and Princeton, but at both New Haven and Princeton it is well monopolized by two fairly quiet and limited tutoring agencies. At Princeton there is a University sponsored undergraduate tutoring organization which advertises in the Princetonian...
Sophomore Bruce Pirnie holds down the bow and his fighting spirit, expressed sometimes in verbal terms, adds atmosphere to the usually quiet end of the boat...
...chorus of 13 bedecked in feathers and representing birds of a mythical kingdom, "swings out" with a none too hospitable greeting to Aristophanes' two wandering Athenians who are searching for "some quiet, easy-going place where they can settle down and dwell in peace." After a struggle and a series of complications, Athenians and birds are finally united into "one big happy family" and the play ends with a marriage feast...