Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over Wally had become one of the best-known and most popular A. E. F. veterans. To the delight of his buddies, this very model of a worthless soldier was awarded a medal of the Purple Heart on special recommendation of General Pershing. Wally returned to the quiet of suburban Drexel Hill, Pa., where he carried on as official cartoonist of the American Legion. This week the scattered staff of The Stars and Stripes prepared for the worst as Wally's daily and Sunday comic strip, "Hoosegow Herman," began to appear in 22 U. S. daily papers, nine Sunday...
Educators last week were exhorted to reform their teaching by an author who laboriously examined these questions: Is love 1) a rainbow, 2) the morning star, 3) the evening star, 4) "a miracle which shines around the cradle of the babe." 5) "something which shines round the quiet tomb?" Is a motorcar 1) a bag of potatoes, 2) a hollyhock, 3) a flying cloud, 4) the sound of the sea? That these questions are likely to be received with awe instead of derision is largely due to the fact that the author was Ivor Armstrong Richards, a founder...
...when Fairchild was plant-hunting in the tropics, he was laid low by an infection, almost died. Two of his associates, who realized that he might have taken to his grave the rich story of his experiences, took him back to the U. S., plumped him down on a quiet New Jersey farm, furnished him with a stenographer...
...Carver Street just off Boylston, a complete Smorgasbord served in a quiet and different atmosphere...
Juicy & Nocturnal. At the gallery of tall Bostonian Hudson D. Walker, watercolors by quiet Harry Glassgold pleased visitors with their dexterity and light-filled colors. In several of them 30-year-old Artist Glassgold got away with a few Marin tricks of shorthand with unusual impunity. Most critics accounted his work more lively if not more accomplished than the watercolors which Dealer Walker hung up this week by 28-year-old, waggish Stuyvesant Van Veen. Typical of his dry, ingenious work were half-a-dozen "nocturnes"' of New England small towns, among them Peterborough Backstreet...