Word: quiet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Social Influence of the Automobile" and it ought to be a good one. What they have done to Harvard as a community is only an example on the large scale of what they have done to every American family. The bisecting of the college preserve, the destruction of quiet by the roaring arteries of traffic, is an incident common to every village and town. The coming and going, the opportunity of being somewhere else, that has a way of depopulating Harvard over the weekends to the belittlement of those gentler amenities, good talk and reading, has hit the American home...
...where least expected. Last week in England Soprano Florence Austral, 35, was banned from the Three Choirs Festival* to be held in Worcester Cathedral because her past included a divorce case. The objections came publicly from the Very Reverend William Moore Ede, dean of Worcester. They harked back to quiet divorce proceedings brought four years ago by a Mrs. John Amadio against her husband-flutist. Soprano Austral is now the second Mrs. Amadio. That, declared Dean Ede, the Church of England could not condone, contract or no contract. Indignantly Husband Amadio protested. His pleasant, big-chested wife had done much...
...with his studies, though J. A. K. Herbert sometimes does.† But neither does his fame diminish bis popularity at the Point because, newspaper and schoolgirl illusions to the contrary notwithstanding. Christian Keener Cagle is not a domineering, fire-eating, muscle-bulging hero off the gridiron. He is quiet, retiring. He brought a drawl but not much rambunctiousness with him from Louisiana. He is not even redhaired, as legend says, nor six feet tall. But two feet are better than six if they can carry you as fast as Cagle's through a broken field. And it is some...
...They kept making totally inadequate offers." continued Chancellor Snowden and went on to tell how "the quiet, plaintive Adachi" came to him one day to confide secretly that he would not actually stand against Britain and was only sitting in with the French, Belgians and Italians "as an observer." This blazing indiscretion amounted to revealing that Japan?the little naval ally of Britain?had been ready all along to double-cross the Continental Powers, several of whose offers to Snowden were countersigned by Dr. Adachi...
Intellectually such words are nonsense. Emotionally, they may prove to be the acme of British commonsense. The situation in Palestine had become quiet last week, with 5,000 British troops policing the land, disarming both, Jews and Arabs, recovering loot seized in the riots, massacres and town-burnings of last fortnight. Quite possible the best way to quench the strife of Islam v. Israel was to make both factions feel that further slaughter would be common murder, not glorious and justifiable vengeance taken upon a rival race and creed...