Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the wharf as though he wanted to step down and talk. The Vagabond hailed him to come aboard. The old salt accepted, and soon they were swapping tales such as only fishermen and sailors can. As the man, his face a grey stubble and his eyes reflecting a quiet pride, forgot the Cambridge puppy squatted before him and became absorbed in his own, other world, there unrolled a story...
...opposed Mr. Lewis-something which Mr. Lewis never forgot or forgave. Therefore with the aid of other rebels against the dead hand, Mr. Lewis pitch-forked into the nation's No. 1 Labor office, the pink-cheeked secretary-treasurer of his United Mine Workers. So William Green, a quiet, cautious character virtually unknown out side his own union, became and still is, president...
...recent international conference in Paris these differences were ironed out and a standard phon scale agreed on involving a uniform listening technique, reference tone, and zero level. Some loudnesses measured on this scale are: ticking of watch at 3 ft., 30 phons; tearing of paper at 3 ft., 40; quiet conversation, 60; noisy conversation, 70; noisy truck, 90; proximity of airplane engine, 120; near threshold of pain...
...house, he and his secretary were in their rooms and the butler said it was all a mistake. Few minutes later police returned to find all three spatting in the hallway. Howled Funnyman Fields: "It's all right to argue in the daytime, but I want peace and quiet at night. She came in late and awakened the butler, and started the row." Retorted Secretary Monti: "Mr. Fields let me in and started the argument. The butler merely tried to soothe him. And besides, I got hit." Funnyman Fields said he, too, got hit; neither of them said...
...quiet, likeable man, Mr. Metcalf was cornered in his imposing office on the right wing of Widener as one enters the building. "There will be no changes of any kind this fall," he said. "I shall spend the first months getting acquainted...