Word: tranquility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace has never had the proper kind of publicity. It hasn't lent itself to the copy-starved portables of reporters with the same excitement which war can marshal. It is essentially a tranquil, home-loving, field and stream, house and garden sort of condition. It has never had such valuable props in its kit as patriotism, heroism, bright ribbony medals, brass bands, and the devoted support of the ladies...
...think that a billion dollars in taxes can be levied upon necessities . . . without provoking violent resentment in the industrial sections of the country. . . . If this bill goes into effect, Mr. Roosevelt will be in for trouble compared with which Mr. Hoover's experiences in farm relief will seem tranquil and pleasant...
...House and Senate obligingly approved the Postmaster General's purchase of a topper-fitting automobile. In New York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language-dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody. Said he: "Beauty of sound is not enough. Mush is a word pleasant to the ear, but its connotation is ugly. Beauty of meaning is not sufficient. Mother is one of our most loved words, but it lacks euphony." Meeting in Manhattan's Empire...
...Managua the newspaper Niicva Prensa, organ of the defeated Conservative Party, heaped special praise on Admiral Clark Howell Woodward, supervisor of the election. "Admiral Woodward returns to his country with a tranquil conscience" said Nueva Prensa, "sure of having maintained . . . the honor and impartiality of the United States...
...Roman Catholic church, school, charitable institution. Hale & hearty as he is, he perhaps tires of Boston, of his lavish three-story Italianate house which, built on a rock ledge, is jarred by passing trolleys and trucks. Perhaps Cardinal O'Connell would prefer to spend his remaining days in tranquil Rome, where stands his titular church, ancient San Clemente, which he has beautified at a reputed cost of $100,000, with a marble bust of himself outside...