Word: quiet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curtius rushed his guns forward at a crucial moment in the Battle of Verdun, demolished an important French fort, was promoted to the staff of the then Commander-in-Chief of the German Offensive, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, and received from the Imperial hand itself the Iron Cross. Quiet Dr. Curtius, who looks even more like a U. S. businessman than M. Tardieu, is the first soldier to be appointed Foreign Minister of the German Republic...
...might default. But the Wall Street crash has raised doubts as to whether U. S. investors can be depended on to hold the German bag-full or empty as the future will reveal. Last week lean, jocular Melvin Alvah Traylor, President of The First National Bank of Chicago, and quiet, thickset Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of First National Bank of New York, were on the Atlantic en route to tell the statesmen at The Hague what can be expected from U. S. investors. Mr. Reynolds was chairman of the Baden-Baden bankers committee which drew up the charter and statutes...
Inflamed by Harper's tales of Fascist propaganda and intimidation in the U.S., Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, apostle of 150% Americanism, bellowed in protest, demanded an official Senate investigation. The U. S. State Department made quiet inquiry, dropped official diplomatic hints at Rome. Last week, wilting as Fascism so often does before genuine opposition, 93 chapters of the Fascist League of America disbanded. In New York reporters assembled at the league's headquarters to see the Fascist League's emblems and insignia shipped back to Rome...
...rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...
This is partly a novel, partly autobiography, partly an essay on modern civilization. Those who like loud talk, quick action, should not apply. Those who like good writing, quiet observations, had better read...