Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caiaphas, the blue-horned high priest; chaste Thekla, the Greek maiden who followed Saul in boy's dress; easy Peter, shaggy John Baptist, gentle-fingered Luke. ... It is a book to read much more slowly than most. Between his rich phrases about white roses, tawny storms, bleeding grapes, quiet grey eyes, legs "supple as the bending barley," and all the gems and moving animals and rare wonders of the world-a man that should play a tall harp is telling a deep epic. The Author's scholarship, of which he needed and exercised much in this book, comes...
Perhaps a quiet word passed between Dictator Mussolini and the Count that Il Duce will strive to bring France and Britain round to permitting the restoration of a Habsburg king in Hungary, something Hungarians ardently desire (TIME, Nov. 29, Jan. 24). Since the time is not ripe for airing that project, however, all that Il Duce gave Count Bethlen last week by way of a "bonus" in black and white was an Italian note announcing that the Government of Italy will take steps to arrange with the Government of Jugoslavia for the reduced duty passage through Jugoslavia of Hungarian goods...
Fifteen years ago this morning the Titanic sank, slowly settling in the depths amid the quiet of an April dawn. And among her passengers was one whose name is daily on the lips of a host of Harvard men--the name of Harry Elkins Widener, "devoted to high ideals and characterized by scholarly habits and a fondness for collecting rare books...
...proceeds as Matthew Knowle, the pen-name under which he just published his most successful novel of all, to start a new life "from zero." The Matthew Knowle novel provides funds and Author Owen provides our hero with his conception of a perfect woman, a small divorcee with every quiet grace and no questions. When the posthumous production of the late John Garth's first play is a huge success; when Mrs. Garth, penitent, lies gravely ill; when Matthew Knowle sees the grown son that John Garth sired, the divorcee, Julia, acts "sportingly." Wrench though...
...never loses sight of the French spirit as seen through English eyes. For those who like their romances tragic and especially for the ladies "The Old Countess" is certain to be entertaining story. It could have been made very saccharine, but instead it is filled with a rather quiet charm...