Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning a patrolman, two detectives and an S. P. C. A. agent descended on the Parkinson yard, confiscated the cat trap. Revealed as trapper was newly-married Elizabeth Bliss Parkinson, daughter of quiet, publicity-shy Cornelius Newton Bliss, charitarian and Metropolitan...
...embarking on the second "war to end war" in 1940. His birth was the result of one of these trained nurse--doomed aviator combinations so frequent in the A.E.F. during the last world war. His step-father was an officer at that time, but by 1940 this man's quiet efficiency, of the Lewis Stone variety, has made him a peace-loving Secretary of State and his name is Seward. His mother, played by Miss Wynyard, is a fine lady and a militant pacifist, as in "Cavalcade...
Rolling Stock. Russo-Japanese relations, quiet for a year, suddenly snapped taut last week at an angry squawk from the government of Manchukuo. While thousands of Soviet troops have moved quietly into line along the Manchukuan border, railway officials at the Russian end of the Chinese Eastern Railway have been quietly detaining rolling stock of the C. E. R., rerouting them over Russian tracks. Manchukuo officials woke to the fact last week that the Soviet had "borrowed" 3,200 freight cars, 190 passenger cars, 83 locomotives. The system was paralyzed, for the C. E. R. is built on Russian broad...
...some students had been sent back into classrooms by their parents, but it was still the biggest and most exciting school strike Chicago had ever seen. Next day the strikers were fewer in number, but distributed among a larger number of schools. The Chicago Parent-Teachers Association worked to quiet the pupils. Twenty-seven youths were arrested for inciting and picketing. Superintendent Bogan pointed out that anyone over 16 who interferes with school sessions may be fined $100, that parents of truants under 16 may be fined from $5 to $20. Superintendent Bogan blamed the strike on 1) Spring...
...director who would give her one after her performance in Mary Pickford's Little Princess was Erich von Stroheim. Her treatment of a lugubrious part in Greed convinced him that she was the "ablest tragedienne in Hollywood." and she got the sad role of the mother in All Quiet on the Western Front. That film was previewed at a Hollywood theatre just after a Zasu Pitts comedy. When the audience was moved to reminiscent laughter by the sight of her face, the producers cut her out of the picture, remade the parts in which she had appeared...