Word: quietness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Seattle paper, for over a year, and have only found the purest Truth contained in them; urging his people, and all people toward a clean, righteous life. The audience there may be a bit noisy sometimes, in their fervor but that is not criminal, and in time will quiet down...
...orking with Senator Sheppard against Repeal were two onetime Governors, Pat Neff and Dan Moody. Working against them were Governor "Ma" Ferguson arid her husband Jim. The Roosevelt machine functioned with quiet efficiency on orders from Washington and Postmaster General Farley; theme: "The good old doctrine of States' Rights, so dear to the hearts of all Texans." Vice President Garner quit fishing long enough to announce that he was voting...
Germany's rebuttal was to hold two monster Nazi demonstrations, one near the Polish border on the battlefield of Tannenberg, the other near the French border at quiet little Rudesheim on the Rhine. By roaring 600 mi. across Germany in a fast plane. Handsome Adolf was able to appear and speak at both. At Tannenberg he presented to Old Paul von Hindenburg a tract of land adjacent to his Neudeck home; at Rudesheim he whooped it up for the Saar plebiscite of 1935 which may return the Saar Basin to Germany...
...able Minister Soong, famed for his uncompromising policy toward Japan. Japan cocked a belligerent eye on "any new developments in China's political situation that may occur subsequent to the return of T. V. Soong." Unofficial plans were made to have Minister Soong stop off in Tokyo for quiet conversations with Japanese officials. But when the S. S. President Jefferson docked last week in Yokohama, Minister Soong refused to leave the ship...
...towering lump of limestone called Gibraltar, British military authorities last week arrested a German student named Wupperman, whom they suspected of photographing fortifications. Wupperman was released after brief examination, but the quiet dignity of the procedure was soothing to the pride of His Majesty's troops. It atoned somewhat for the undignified time they had lately had with another offender. An Englishwoman and her daughter had been attacked and troops had been called out to hunt down the attacker-one of Gibraltar's famed Barbary apes, last wild monkeys in Europe...