Word: lull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moroccan nobles uttered passionate but unavailing prayers, last week, as a typhus epidemic spreading from the Arab slums of Fez entered at last the cool and sumptuous palace of the Sultan Mulai Yusef, where such luxuries as fountains, tinkling behind screens of marble fretwork, lull the inhabitants into a disregard of occasional vermin potentially laden with typhus bacilli...
Over in Irontown ("Arntown") where the teamsters are working, the villagers have their annual religious debauch - a revival. Following local custom, Abner and his mates engage female partners for the whole series of meetings. One night, during a lull in the hysteria, one Tug Beavers temporizes about going to the mourners' bench. That same night he gets a backful of buckshot from Peck Bradley, a murderer out on bail. Religion picks up. Bloodhounds bay for three days and nights in the back hills and Bradley is brought in to jail, crusted with mud but full of bravado. Sharing...
...last week, all this having been done and finished, the Senate got down to the serious business of the Italian debt. After many hours of debate, there was a lull. Veteran Senators became aware that the clerk was reading something. Listening, they heard it to be a seething telegram. Mystified, they whisperingly questioned one another, learned that the Junior Senator from Rhode Island (Jesse Houghton Metcalf) had sent to the clerk this telegram from a constituent, Angelo Morello, who had become incensed by re marks made the previous day by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri.* "Scurrilous, venomous...
...married home usually seeks to ingratiate himself by his knowing and considerate treatment of the babies with which it is blessed. He is aware, if his polish is not sadly at fault, that the art of playing with an infant is to amuse without exciting it; to lull it into a state of somnolence, and, after it is asleep, to walk on tiptoes and refrain from loud talk, from playing the phonograph...
Hope for Premier King and the Liberals still lies in the West (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta). It depends upon the "third party," the Progressives, who dominate the far prairies. If they combine with Liberals and return Liberal members (or members committed to lull co-operation with the Liberal Party), then it is likely that a majority for Premier King will again be found in the new Parliament...