Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decay. Sunny days attended Queen Wilhelmina's visit to the Liege Exposition in Belgium, where Wuthering Heights packed them in and unemployment dropped 3,000 in a month. In Tallinn, walled capital of Estonia, night clubs were open all night; in Kiev, at the Park of Culture and Rest, huge, heavy-looking trees brooded over the Dnepr and over the cleared spaces where, on the warm evenings, dances were held. Planting and raising things, betting on games, going to fairs, the people of Europe last week stirred as spring ripened, made the most of the precious days of peace...
...Rest Day. At Banff for one day King George and Queen Elizabeth could relax. Dressed in sports clothes they drove about, peeked at peaks, climbed a small mountain, photographed a deer and a cub bear, took a ride in an old-fashioned buckboard, dined on fresh trout caught by Lord-in-Waiting Lord Eldon, and chatted with correspondents in the evening...
This is no problem of "aiding they inferiors." Taking the field of music alone, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, Roland Hayes, Marion Anderson and all the rest of the known Negro artists are peer if not superiors of their white competitors. If we are interested in American democracy, sheets should be used for beds, not hoods...
...French Concession at Shanghai. There are only guesses as to how much wealth (foreign and Chinese) is on deposit there, but if Japan, already forced to tighten her belt to carry on the Chinese "incident," could get her hands on these riches, they would help her in financing the rest of the war. While Chinese diplomats profess optimism over the military situation, no one was surprised when they warned Occidental powers sympathetic to China that the question of whether Japan wins or loses now depends largely on how firmly the French, British and U. S. stand on their rights...
...sitting quietly before his fire may be at peace, but he is not at rest. If he sits long enough...