Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night month ago the S. S. District of Columbia, ancient sidewheeler of the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co., chuffed down the quiet Potomac on its regular overnight run from Washington to Norfolk. About midnight a ''red-faced'' man stepped up to the deserted refreshment counter and ordered a bottle of beer. Just as he was served, a lean, bespectacled, elderly man, whose grey head was topped with a brown beret, sauntered up beside him. Because they seemed to be total strangers, the clerk was surprised when the red-faced man handed his beer over...
...financial reforms have gone through, unemployment has dropped, impoverished agriculture is now prosperous, but sober Paul van Zeeland sees himself in a larger role: leader of a new group of European powers. Hence his desire to placate Belgium's noisy Flemish minorities, hence his embarking on a quiet campaign no other Belgian Premier has dared: to make friends with The Netherlands...
After a day of dreamlike quiet in Madrid during which not a shot was heard another furious bombardment was launched in which correspondents counted a shell every ten seconds. Across the Straits of Gibraltar from Spanish Morocco, Generalissimo Franco rushed 14,000 more troops, some of them foreign volunteers and tatterdemalion striplings. In a few weeks he will sidetrack great numbers of troops to reap the July grain harvest if he wants his soldiers to have enough to eat this autumn...
...Barnard graduate, quiet, bobbed-haired Freda Kirchwey has worked on The Nation for 19 years. In private life she is the wife of Director Evans Clark of Edward Filene's sociological Twentieth Century Fund...
...East or West but up in the air moved the focus of Spain's war last week. General Mola's land attack on Bilbao was temporarily halted after a bloody hand-to-hand with rifle butts and knives. Comparatively quiet too were all the other fronts. But overhead hell was popping. The week started with the shooting down, by Rightists near Bilbao, of a French transport plane carrying passengers from Biarritz to the besieged city. France had little cause for complaint. The transport, owned by the Air Pyrenees Line, had been running the blockade for weeks trusting...