Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years, the liaison of the Freshmen and the Yard has already begun to take on an aspect of hoary tradition. "Copey," Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, has reluctantly abandoned his famous rooms under the roof of Hollis Hall. But the cry of "Reinhart," (shocking to the decorous quiet of the House quadrangles) rings out all the more volubly from the throats of Freshmen...
Tired of hotel life Mrs. Johnson took a non-paying job on NRA's Consumers Advisory Board, chairmanned by Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey. A quiet, cheery, unassuming person in simple clothes, the General's wife works in the complaint division sits in on many a code hearing...
...Provisional President. Not acceptable to Ambassador Welles or to the Cuban army officers who had staged the coup d'état, General Herrera waited only for Congress to rush through a bill permitting him to hand the Provisional Presidency over to a "civilian neutral" and retired Cuban diplomat, quiet, scholarly, short-statured Carlos Manuel de Cespedes (pronounced "Sess-pay-dess...
...stream, sent figures worthy to rank with Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Dancer Argentina, Pianist José Iturbi. As though to atone for this neglect, alert little Pianist Iturbi, who plans to become a U. S. citizen, has lately carved a niche for himself as an orchestral conductor as well. His quiet debut occurred last May in Mexico City, speedily became a triumph. Emboldened by the success of his first piano recitals in Mexico, Iturbi organized an orchestra of 75 "professors," inserted a small advertisement in a newspaper saying that he would conduct it. He describes the effect: "The people...
...clock the torrent began to dr,am away. By afternoon it was quiet. Because of the warnings flashed out by Operator Nettie Driscoll and by Hugh Paine, caretaker of the dam, thousands of slumbering Denverites had escaped death. Only two were killed, five reported missing. Property damage exceeded $1,000,000, would have been greater but for the city ordinance that requires all Denver houses to be built of stone, brick, tile or concrete...