Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away in Hastings the dogs were barking sharply. Delegates to this year's convention of the British Labor Party cheered violent, scrubby-mustached David Kirkwood, M.P. when he attacked Governor Norman's quiet fiscal sway over the City as "a more effective Dictatorship than Hitler's in Germany or Mussolini's in Italy!" Warmed up by Dave Kirkwood, the Conference passed a resolution pledging the Party to oppose any return by Britain to the gold standard. Fresh cheers broke out when fiery Ben Tillett, a leading agitator in the first and only British General strike (TIME...
...amazed at the quiet efficiency with which the 7 o'clock bell ordinance has been repealed. There is no more ringing of bells early in the morning now than there is "bolsterous music or playing upon drums," (as the parietal regulations put it), at night. Yet last year it took a tinpan obligate to suppress the Sunday morning cartoonists of Lowell House Tower. Even now, we live in continual dread of the Russian Bells, which might start at any minute, announcing the decreasing sobriety of Lowell House tutors. Perhaps President Conant might decree another act of mercy and cut these...
...Great Neck, L. I. From then on the pinchbeck little kingdom which begins at Manhattan's Columbus Circle and ends at Herald Square was the private domain of George M. Cohan. He did things his own way. He has never felt at home in The Players Club on quiet Gramercy Square, but when the Friars made him a member he took a troupe of stars on tour, raised the money to build a new club house. The Friars gratefully elected him Abbot. He came to recognize himself as the world's best tap dancer, best songwriter, best playwright...
...July it was learned that D. C. L.'s managing director, Thomas Herd, was in Montreal visiting his affiliated Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, Ltd. About all the liquormen knew was that Mr. Herd was a quiet, hard-headed gentleman who abhorred publicity and brokers, that he never moved a step without an aide, Thomas Wilkinson...
...known that Heywood Broun had received a Hearst offer, turned it down. Even if Colyumist Broun had lumbered away from the World-Telegram Publisher Roy Howard would have had good reason to feel pleased with the results of last week's deals in colyumists. He had conducted a quiet but more effective raid of his own: Westbrook Pegler, famed colyumist for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, whose "Speaking Out" has contained some of the most pungent wit as well as some of the best critical sports reporting in the U. S. for the last eight years, will start writing...