Word: quiet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town is like a hospital campus. No street cars break the quiet; no clanging noises disturb the peace. Silent busses slip about the streets. No factory whistles shriek. It is a town of healing, charity, repose...
...There were swarming crowds milling decorously on the Surrey side near Putney Bridge as the crews took to the water, but they were quiet crowds, undulating gently at the slightest gesture of the bobbies...
This occurred in February; Judge Dewhirst retained Shiloh and its hallowed manse. "Queen" Mary soon purchased ten acres of farm land not far away. There she and her faithful proceeded in quiet procession last week, distraught, injured, but somewhat heartened by thoughts of a new tabernacle, a new beginning...
Divorced. Erich Maria Remarque, 32, author (All Quiet on the Western Front); by Else Jeanne Zamboni Remarque, 37; in Berlin. The decree was granted in January but kept secret by her continuing a member of his household...
...woman novelist read her proof, disliked what he read. His first story he rewrote 20 times, parts of it 100 times; did not succeed in selling a story till 14 years later. He lives well in West Chester, Pa., collects antiques, is married. Other books: The Three Black Pennys, Quiet Cities, Tubal Cain, The Lay Anthony, Mountain Blood, Wild Oranges, Tampico, Swords and Roses, The Bright Shawl, Java Head, Balisand, From an Old House, The Dark Fleece, The Happy End, Cytherea, Linda Condon, San Cristobal de la Habana...