Word: allaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outstanding features in feminine reflections at the Union we find a stalwart youth with ebony mane popularly known as the Answer to a Maiden's Prayer. But the most vigorous attention and well-meaning conjecturers have produced no real results. Our unnoticing hero has formed no feminine attachment to allay the disquieting fears of our fascinated schoolmarms, and we are beginning to question whether there really existed a maiden's prayer, or whether the answer was short circuited. Here at least is a case where wire-tapping would be of more avail than wire-pulling...
...York city are forced to hold mass meetings in protest against restrictions on free expression of undergraduate opinion. The Conference on Students' Rights which met last Monday in New York City is the outgrowth of a type of administrative control which some schools have attempted, in an effort to allay radicalism, from which Harvard is entirely free...
Aged Threat. Only one pacific voice was raised in Nippon last week, that of ancient Count Koken Tanaka, former Minister of the Imperial Household who suddenly emerged from retirement and announced that unless the present Government did not immediately adopt measures to allay unemployment and save poor Japanese citizens from starvation, he would cut open his 90-year-old belly in protest to the Emperor's Ear, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saonji...
After he was elected President four years ago, Herbert Hoover got on a battleship and cruised around South America to rest and to allay hostile economic feelings engendered by the policies of Calvin Coolidge. After he was nominated for President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt got on a 40-ft. yawl and cruised around New England co rest and to allay hostile political feelings engendered by his defeat of Alfred Emanuel Smith at the Chicago convention...
...friends, goes to visit her employer, on business of course, in his pent house. It is not a usual pent house at all, for it opens out on an African Zoo which the employer explains away by his passion for the Orient, an explanation which did not allay the suspicion that the set was a jungle scene that was shipped by mistake to the wrong lot. The employer proves to be a lecherous old party and real damage is only prevented by the arrival of a very righteous and breathless hero...