Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everything that could possibly be dragged out and hauled into the discussion has been said in connection with the Oath. On occasions both sides have displayed quiet and mature judgment and scholarly interpretation, as for instance Professor Morison's testimony before the legislative committee; and at other times the dead cats have been sailing across the Gardner Auditorium with passion and fury. Nothing more can be added in either direction...
...Prince in New Zealand by Hector Bolitho was selling nicely, but not for a while did the author turn up in England, doing in 1929 a modest volume called The Later Letters of Lady Augusta Stanley and branching out from the Prince of Wales, who remembered him, into quiet purlieus of the Royal Family where a few not very exciting private papers began to be at his disposal...
...central location, as well as notorious for its cacophonous collection of bells, (they are played but once a month) Lowell House was one of the three new units built in 1930 to complete the present House Plan. Physically it is a beautiful example of Georgian architecture; and the quiet beauty of its two courts is made all the greater by contrast with the noise and confusion which holds forth without its walls...
...sold. The new owners immediately changed its name from Jimplecute to plain Journal. "Miss Birdie" carried on the job printing business, still runs it at 76. Last year the Journal changed from a daily to a semiweekly. Its 2,000 readers supposed that like almost everything else in their quiet, moss-grown city, the Journal would now drowse off to sleep...
...matter of fact in that quiet and secluded den of science, far from the madding maelstrom of university life, we passed the most hair-raising quarter hour we've yet known. For innocently accepting an invitation to witness a short operation on a cat, we had no sooner crossed the threshold of the formaldehyde-filled room when the coils of drama closed round us like an octopus and didn't let go till we left in a state of exhaustion, bloody and quite bowed...