Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colorful Tim, who like Hacker has found new joy in tackling. There's the steady Chief, with the barrel-house voice and the sure toe. There's Don and Win, a set of ends who have justified the confidence placed in them. There's Bob B., slim, reserved, quiet, who can carry the mail while Torbie gets his wind. And there's Chink, who gives Tim a rest at center, but allows the team no let-down...
Socrates sat up on his couch and rubbed his leg where the chains had grated against the skin. Dusty streaks of the afternoon sun cut through the prison window. At his feet fourteen men squatted on the floor and marvelled at his quiet courage in the face of--death. Was this death, they thought, do men ever die this...
First elections for municipal councillors "since Munich" were held last week throughout England and Wales. There was no landslide either way but the Conservative Party made a quiet net gain of 20 seats, mainly at the expense of the Labor Party which suffered a net loss of 17 seats. The Liberals lost two seats, Independents...
Danton's Death (by George Büchner; produced by the Mercury Theatre). Mars Director Orson Welles having blasted the U. S. into an uproar over the radio, Mercury Director Orson Welles turned last week to the peace & quiet of the French Revolution...
Last week, on his 64th birthday, able, amiable Sewell Avery moved from president to board chairman. Into his place stepped Raymond Henry Fogler, 46, quiet, serious, hard-working vice president in charge of operations, whom Mr. Avery hired away from W. T. Grant Co. in 1932. Born on a Maine farm and educated in a one-room schoolhouse before he went to the University of Maine and Princeton, studious Merchant Fogler has been at Sewell Avery's right hand throughout the Ward renascence. Although Mr. Avery, who has the step and manner of a man of 50, will presumably...