Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge's will and the will of the District of Columbia approached each other from opposite directions. The President swerved an inch; the District swerved a yard and collision was averted. The matter in disagreement was the inaugural ceremony. The President wished it to be very quiet; the District wished it to be very grand, in order that a big crowd might be drawn and business improved. Last week, the Washington Inaugural Committee announced that it would return to the donors the greater part of the $60,000 to $100,000 that had been subscribed for the celebration...
...raucous clanging of a hurry bell and the road of a high powered motor broke the accustomed quiet of the noon hour in the Yard yesterday. A considerable number of the classroom exodus turned at the sound and witnessed the arrival of a large red ambulance which came to an auspicious stop before Thayer Hall...
Raisuli, bloated like a balloon, suffering agony from dropsy in the legs, Jay amid rich carpets and cushions on the floor of his palace stronghold in the mountains near Tazreut. Heavy fighting had been going on outside, but. now all was quiet. Suddenly, there was the trampling of many feet and into the room swept some Moorish officers of Sultan Muhammad, otherwise...
...Oriental attributes of the story-caves and palaces and deserts-are naturally big medicine for the cinema. Betty Blythe, the slave girl, puts her heart into the thing, as well as her hips and shoulders. The picture is a pretty good imitation. Coming Through. Thomas Meighan is, as usual, quiet and strong, kindly and brave. He is the mine superintendent who averts the strike and hurls Wallace Beery (villain) off the scaffolding. Lila Lee is also implicated as his wife. As a careful copy of the usual Meighan formula, the film will no doubt prosper...
...Ahmed Zogu reports "all quiet along the Adriatic", but Fan Noli talks darkly of suppression, of Serbian intervention, of a Russian army, and of a threatened partition of Albania by Italy and Jugo-Slavia. And during the period of his exile he sits in his little attic in Vienna and writes and writes and writes...