Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Equally panicky but less picturesque than M. Chéron, England's Daily Mail, organ of Red-baiting Viscount Rothermere, declared that Soviet lumber was being offered "on the quiet" in London last week for $55.20 per "standard" (a standard equals 200 board feet; a board foot is a piece of lumber one foot square, one inch thick), a terrific cut under the London basic price of $65.25. Charging that a deal at this Red cut price had already been made by London's Central Softwood Buying Corp. Ltd. the Daily Mail moaned: "This will depress the value...
...white folks, who have been sitting off and on for eight years, are the German-American Mixed Claims Commission. To their credit stand some 19,000 awards. But only last week did the quiet, potent Commission become smoking hot news...
...Huey arrived in Cambridge yesterday afternoon, and, except for an informal visit with a few of his intimate friends, the world's foremost prophet spent a quiet evening. He refused to divulge the ultimate winner of the series, because, as he says, "Mr. Street and Mr. Mack are both friends of mine, and I don't want to discourage either of them until it is absolutely necessary...
...Quiet sitters at the back of their Soviet union hall were five women whom Ogpu (Soviet secret police) pounced on last week, arrested. All were charged with falsifying their identity papers, accused of being former nuns masquerading as proletarians. Two of them, whilom Mother Superior Belayeva and Sister Danilova (both of the suppressed Convent of Ekaterinburg), were further accused of being former princesses.- To their homes the Ogpu frog-marched the protesting nuns, ransacked, found 800 silver ruble pieces, 250 rubles in Tsarist gold coins, "a panful of copper coins" and 515 carats of assorted precious stones. In reporting...
...years ago appeared a quiet autobiographical narrative, Memoirs of A Fox-Hunting Man. This book is its sequel. Author Sassoon calls himself "George Sherston," changes the names of regiments and men, but those who read his onetime great & good friend Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That (TIME, Jan. 6), may remember the right ones. Another fine War book, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer is what the name implies. It tries to give no picture of the War as a whole. "Those who expect a universalization of the Great War must look for it elsewhere. Here they will only find...