Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month): As he has done every Sunday for two years, quiet, kindly. 61-year-old Fritz Mueller, German-born Seattle meat market owner, is delivering a roast of beef to a needy friend. Outside the apartment house, which substantial Citizen Mueller owns, he is stopped by two Federal Alcohol Tax Unit agents in plain clothes-short, swart Edward T. Kelly, 35, onetime Prohibition agent, and frail, bespectacled Leonard ("Relentless") Regan, 59, Croix de guerre War veteran, longtime Prohibition agent. Agent Kelly: "Where are you going with that package?" Mueller explains, asks why he is being followed. A scuffle takes...
...their breasts and flinging them down, to indicate that their War sacrifice seems to them in vain now that Flemish "traitors" have been amnestied. They kept this up even after King Leopold roundly told them: "You saved Belgium once before, and now you must save Belgium again!" (by keeping quiet). Although Minister of Justice Victor de Laveleye, administrator of the Amnesty Law, is himself a decorated War veteran, he recently emerged from an official visit to the Mons Law Courts nursing a bleeding jaw. Later, during a commemorative service at the Brussels Law Courts, the arrival of the Minister...
...quiet three years following his return to the Conococheague Valley...
With the Indians quiet again, British traders hastened to restore the arms traffic to what it had been. This time the Black Boys did not merely complain. When a long pack train passed through, they shot the horses, burned the merchandise, horsewhipped the drivers, who streaked for Fort Loudon yelling for help. Commandant Grant obliged by making prisoners of eight Black Boys. The remainder called at the fort to demand their comrades be turned loose. Refused, Smith ordered an attack. The Black Boys blazed away all night, then slipped away and waited to intercept any messengers sent out. After more...
VICTORIA FOUR-THIRTY-Cecil Roberts -Macmillan ($2.50). Quiet, almost inaudible novel about a dozen passengers who leave London to make the Orient Express and all keep their seats. Nearest thing to a connecting link between them is the car couplings...