Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canton was quiet. The town's respectable dance place, the "Molly Stark," was ready to close, and out in a genteel residential section, Publisher Donald R. Mellett of the Canton Daily News stopped his automobile in front of his house, to unload Mrs. Mellett and their friends, the Walter Vails, who were going to have a bite of midnight supper before getting along to bed. Mrs. Mellett led the Vails inside and made for the icebox. Publisher Mellett drove his car around to the garage...
...Indulged in many a quiet smile as Premier Baldwin squelched several well-meaning bishops who attempted to intervene in the coal strike. (See below...
Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria, set out incognito last week on a royal vacation which took him through Italy and on to a quiet Swiss resort. The Tsar is 32. During the two decades of his adolescence and manhood there have been persistent rumors that he may marry. Why not? Last week rumors ran that he is "about to espouse a Swedish princess" (Astrid, 25, Martha, 20, and Ingrid, 16, are all available); and of course he might marry, said the rumormongers, Princess Giovanna, 19, but surely not Princess Maria, 12, of Italy. The press of the world has grown...
...most thankless, and the worst paid profession in the world." He pursued economics and political science in Chicago, taking his Ph. D. in 1903. McGill University has employed him ever since. You sometimes see him in this country-a stocky, gruff, mop-headed little figure sitting in the quiet corner of a hotel dining room, or booming greetings and blocking the sidewalk with a well-met friend...
Able Vermont Senator Porter H. Dale, long a quiet, potent Administration opponent, calmly derides Attorney General Sargent's rustic policies. Some months ago W. W. Stickney, onetime Governor of Vermont, announced his satiety with this situation, proposed in the fall to oust Senator Dale from his seat, proposed to fill the seat himself. Mr. Stickney is Mr. Sargent's law partner. Mr. Stickney is a cousin of President Coolidge. Mr. Stickney is the executor of the estate of President Coolidge's father, the late Colonel John Coolidge. In fact, John Coolidge received his title of "Colonel" from...