Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knife-on-plate technique featured the organized pep meeting in the dining hall before the meal, a meal during which you couldn't have heard a bomb go off. As soon as one cheer ended another would start with the class giving it standing on their chairs. The customary quiet settled after dinner but if this evenings display was a trustworthy example there will be plenty of noise from the Navy stands tomorrow...
...janitor said that Wales was a quiet, likeable chap with a flare for working with his hands. He stated that Wales kept all his tools in his room at B-31. The other janitor was not quite so convinced that Wales was a likeable chap. "He told me to sit in the chair and have my brains tested, but I didn't like the look in his eye and I didn't like the looks of the machine," this one announced...
...snapping eyes, unruly grey hair and a sandy mustache-was in the Congo Museum in Tervueren, Belgium, finishing research for a book he was writing. Deciding he had need of the museum director, who was studying shells on the fourth floor, he trotted up the stairs, idled along a quiet corridor. Suddenly on top of a dusty exhibit case, he saw a pair of unfamiliar birds. He grabbed them, lugged them to the director, demanded an explanation. They had been sitting there for 22 years because nobody had quite got around to throwing them away. He was told they were...
...chill quiet of a Virginia dawn last week, a small vessel lapped its way into the Chesapeake Bay toward Norfolk. Aboard was the man who for nearly three weeks had been the world's most sought after newspaper figure. With little of the understanding of or co-operation toward the press which characterized him when he was making glowing headlines far himself as the Senate's Great Investigator, Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, whom newspaper investigation had just revealed as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. was slipping home from Europe as quietly as possible...
...minor engagements where their only objective would be a patch of woods across a ploughed field, but where men would be killed as dead as anywhere else in the taking or losing of it. It was not until the whole army halted and his detachment rested beside a quiet stream somewhere in the region of Pozuelo that Sommerfield knew the Franco advance had been broken and Madrid had been saved. Firing had died to an intermittent rumbling, far away. "We dabbled our feet in the icy water, and it was the first time we had taken our boots...