Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then everything was quiet again. The Vagabond wondered at the silence of the water and the smoothness of the boat's speed. He reflected that he had had a good summer, and that college in the Junior year would be pretty good fun . . . except for divisionals, and they were not till Spring...
Among the familiar evidences of European foreboding, this quiet emigration of paintings to Philadelphia ranks as a minor but interesting portent. Both loans were arranged by the Pennsylvania Museum's young, socialite Assistant Curator Henry Plumer Mcllhenny. Young Mr. McIlhenny was tipped off to the nervousness of young M. Gangnat last summer...
...figure in this management is quiet George Doswell Brooke, 36 of whose 60 years have been spent in railroading, 14 of them with C. & O. A crack operating man, George Brooke once taught at Culver Military Academy, plays good golf, is extraordinarily neat. To his friends he is known as "Babbling Brooke" because he says so little. Says Robert Young: "He opens his mouth every other day and devotes the rest of his time to the C. & O." Mr. Young claims that the Guaranty interests would rather see a C. & O. president whose chief interest is in railroad finance instead...
...beauty of "La Traviata," and combining jazz and the ballet in preposterous fashion, it dwarfs everything previously produced in lavish magnificence and collossal stupidity. Including almost everything except a ballet dance by Charlie McCarthy, its biggest virtue is the absence of endless rows of chorus girls; and only the quiet charm of the leading lady (Miss Leeds) and the all-too-few scenes with Bergen's "animated clothespin" save this tremendous hodge-podge from utter failure...
Once healthy, abstemious Shah Reza considered outlawing opium smoking, but factors other than reform weighed heavily. Important was the fact that an estimated half of the adult population smokes opium, that it is used as solace for the famine victim, to quiet crying babies and pleading children, to deaden the pain of a disease-ridden population largely unserved by doctors or hospitals, as well as for sheer pleasure. More important was that the opium trade, transported by camel caravan into Russia, then carried over the Tran-siberian Railroad to China by the obliging Soviets, accounted for more than half...