Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends dropped away from him sophomore year. He roomed alone on the fifth floor of Dunster so he could have quiet. At Hayes-Bickford's he made friends with a student who commuted from Allston and he got to know well the Exchange Student from Lingnan in China. Nights the three of them would get together in his room and discuss Boethins. They had all read Boethius in the original and in the Middle English translation...
...well-photographed slice of U. S. industrial history. Less effective is the overlong recital of the process by which John Meade comes to jilt his society sweetheart (Gail Patrick) by marriage with the humblest woman he can find (Francine Larrimore). At times patently uneasy with the camera's quiet tempo, Miss Larrimore on the whole does well in her first screening, especially when she gets a chance to turn on high-tension dramatics. Her best scene: telling John Meade why she has decided to visit a cabaret with her chauffeur (John Trent...
...relations is encouraging. The dog does not contend, he merely adds his measure to qualities of which this world has never had enough. Loyalty is a favorite word in our vocabularies. It is a luminous word, direct and simple. May we pledge it anew to the cause of those quiet friends who have helped us to interpret and define its meaning...
...wedding in 1924 was not quite so quiet as the bride & groom had planned. The best man, famed Watercolorist John Marin, met the couple at the Weehawken ferry with the Chandler touring car his son, John Jr. still drives, smashed a lamp post and a grocery wagon and fought with a policeman before his friends were delivered to a justice of the peace at Cliffside...
...European stronghold of genuine Democracy") has retired from its Presidency tranquil in his own mind that the so-called "dictators" of today are in fact a genuine expression in new guise of the popular will-that is of Democracy. Placing the tips of his old fingers together in the quiet of his study at Prague, piercing-eyed, piercing-minded Professor Masaryk-even though the Hitler dictatorship is an ever-present military threat to the Czechoslovak Republic-philosophically points out that the German people, the Russian people, the Italian people and certainly the people of the U.S. are by overwhelming, real...