Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned out the next day that the handbills were scare advertisements for "Steeplejack," a fortnightly blast printed in newspaper form. The feeling behind the sheet is that the sacred quiet of college life, beneath which active minds are restive in a year of American revolution and federal change, must be supplanted by zealous examination of the college structure. Somebody at Dartmouth had to find out what the falsities of that structure are and to open thereby the way for radical changes that the administration and the undergraduates separately forecast...
...fresh roasted popcorn for pastime while she was walking with another fine lady and with one of her favored dogs." ¶ On her 49th birthday, the First Lady entertained Inventor Guglielmo Marconi & wife at luncheon, gave tea to the ladies at the A. F. of L. convention, had a quiet family dinner...
...bashing and waited to see what action would be taken by that detached, God-fearing Baptist, U. S. Ambassador William Edward Dodd. Contemplative Professor Dodd has written for a recent issue of The Uni-versity of Chicago Magazine a characteristic piece headed "The Education of an Ambassador." "Into this quiet life," he writes, "came the call of President Roosevelt of June 8 to go as envoy to Germany in the hope of improving the relations of the two countries. I hesitated and took counsel with the University authorities only to accept." Ever since he reached Berlin last July, Ambassador Dodd...
...cowboy songs and stories when he was touring the cattle country as fiddler in a small dance orchestra. Billy Hill learned then that the real cowboy songs are mostly slow and nostalgic, that with a few exceptional cona ti yi yonpy, yonpy ya's, herders sang to quiet the cattle or to soothe themselves at the end of a hard day's ride. When sound movies brought the songwriters' goldrush to Hollywood, Billy Hill went there too, wrote songs and sold them for $15 and $20 apiece, changed his name to George Brown because no one would...
...quiet along the Charles! The spirit of restiveness is in the air. It's not the House Plan that makes us think so; it's something much more vital. It was recently announced to a startled world that that same old bell, the bell to which nine generations of sons of Harvard have awakened, is, by presidential decree, henceforth and forever more to be silent--gone forever...