Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorker readers, "Small Fry" is a cherished pictorial department which week after week hits off the doings of tough, disdainful little tots. The artist, William Steig, is in sympathy with his characters in that he hated to grow up, still does. A quiet young man with lazy, stone-blue eyes, a wide grin and upstanding stiff brown hair, Steig at 31 looks about as he did when he went to Public School No. 53, in The Bronx. Little boys, he believes, "are not as quickly socially-conditioned as little girls and obviously not as artificial as adults. They furnish...
...been quiet on the intramural sports front for more than a week, and all will continue to be quiet for several more weeks, giving Generalissimo Adolph Samborski a breathing spell after a furious fall and winter season and a chance to figure out how the eight entries in the Grand Harvard Handicap stand...
When the Big Green athletes swoop down from the hills of Hanover, or the Sons of Old Eli invade America's Number One University, hospitable Harvard furnishes them a quiet night's rest in some comfortable Boston hotel. After a night's sleep that may or may not have been passed to the accompaniment of clanging street cars and vociferously tooting taxis, the out-of-town athletes must trudge, bag in hand, through the baffling intricacies of Boston's subway system before finally reaching their destination. All this would be changed if Harvard had a dormitory unit which could house...
From Vienna went radio messages to the Slovaks like others once sent to the Sudetens: "Keep quiet and stay by your radios. A historic announcement will be made to you later. . . . Slovaks and Hlinka Guards, the hour will soon strike for which you are waiting...
Next day the lecture was reported in every big newspaper in the world. Reason : the quiet, didactic speaker was Joseph Stalin, and his well-behaved class was the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Although nothing like the rants which Herr Hitler broadcasts to the world, the speech was a big event-both because Stalin seldom sounds off on Russian and international affairs, and because the Congress was the first in five long years during which the repeatedly purged Communist Party has come to look as little like its former self as a muzhik...