Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be laid out in the open country; food, water and sanitation arranged; facilities for transporting the civilian population set up. During the first & second readings tax-burdened local governments protested hotly that it was "unfair" to saddle them with the maintenance of civilians evacuated from other areas. To quiet these complaints Home Secretary Sir Samuel boosted the proportionate share to be paid by the Government for the cost of the plan from...
Puppet governments are expensive, however, and it is in this respect that Japan's resources will be strained. Her puppet governments can keep their Chinese subjects quiet only by an outlay of money,--for Japanese gendarmes to maintain order, for puppet Chinese armies of soldiers who must be fed in order to keep them from banditry (a form of unemployment relief), and for public industrial works to make the conquered territory return a profit to Japan...
...Irish Post Office and is credited with saving all subsequent generations of mankind many steps by inventing the street mailbox as a convenient place for posting letters. As a novelist he saved no words, for he wrote with great facility, reeling off his ambling tales with a quiet relish, at the rate of 2,500 words a morning. But although he held the mirror rather too close to the placid mediocrity of British life, he had a genuine ability to tell a story and to tell it with a sharp, shrewd bite...
...17th floor of the Postum Building in Manhattan, a portrait of his father over the fireplace, a bust of Lincoln, his favorite character, above his silvering head, Colby Chester shares the corporate detail with President Clarence Francis, devoting more & more of his time to semi-public service. Slight, quiet, earnest, he is a crack tennis player and the best golfer in the company. For some wholly mysterious reason his friends have always called him "Clare...
...lazy life "reading right through Gibbon every other year and whittling paper-knives from the lids of cigar-boxes." As mistress of Knole Castle and pet of Edward VII, Victoria took London into camp as she had Washington, married the heir to Knole, first cousin Lionel Sackville-West, shy, quiet. the perfect English country gentleman, five years her junior...