Word: quiteness
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...Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland has lost most of its large customers. Nations have about quit settling with one another, financially. But the bank does a lot of observing and thinking, and last week the most newsworthy observation of its annual report was a carefully documented conclusion that government spending cannot cure Depression. The bank's president, Johan Willem Beyen of The Netherlands, used the U. S. as a prime example of that policy's failure. Main thesis of the report, however, was not so much that U. S. spending since 1933 had been misguided ("natural...
Author-Critic Henry Louis Mencken quit his short-time job as editor of the Baltimore Evening Sun (TIME, Feb. 21), went to Manhattan, where he attended a cocktail party given by Lecturer Sally Rand (see p. 56), got ready to sail for a vacation in Nazi Germany...
...Henry Van Dyke, Theodore Roosevelt, and Novelist Ralph Connor (The Sky Pilot, The Man from Glengarry], an intellectual who liked to fish felt compelled to discover deep political, moral, social and physical values in fishing, and the literature of that period is filled with accounts of wastrels who quit drinking after a period in the woods, of sick men who got back their health stalking deer, of cynics who got back their faith riding canoes down foaming rapids...
Thomas Mann, great & good German novelist (The Magic Mountain, Joseph in Egypt) who voluntarily quit his native land in 1933 when Hitler came to power announced he would apply for U. S. citizenship this week...
...standing before you two guys that didn't get into a House. We can't even get in a House, imagine that! Phil's all ready to quit college, says he's going to Rice Institute...