Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weep no more my lady" over "the unquestionably evil influence exerted by popular nursery jingles" upon infant minds. But rather join in that nocturnal and nationally criminal chorus of wicked mothers, who love to sing when "quiet hour" comes, that "Old King Cole was a merry ol' soul," with all its accompanying nonsense, even though we know it to be lovely...
...this famous Mr. I? Mr. I is a quiet Chinese student who signs his names with a single straight stroke of the pen. An upright dash, that is Mr. I. That is all, and enough to set grave and learned philologists deliberating. These worthy scholars have bestowed upon Mr. I the superlative degree hence his fame-- by declaring that his "must be the shortest name in existence, as it is composed of but one letter and the letter which uses less ink than any other of the alphabet...
...mortifying, bitter truth that the quiet and close thinker in the White House, just elected President as the Republican nominee, is a better Democrat in many essentials, more in accord with the foundation principles of the Democratic Party, than many men who have obtained high and honorable places as ostensible Democrats...
...week in Italy was quiet. There were attacks by the Communists on Fascisti, by Fascisti on Communists, in which the Socialists were also implicated either as aggressors or defenders. Bombs, bottles and knives were thrown, bullets were fired, whips cracked as did bludgeons over heads, blood flowed and angry cries rent the air. Yet all was comparatively quiet. It was that the Opposition press had been effectually gagged; that a hundred questionable politico-social clubs had been closed: that the urban and rural branches of the Italia Libera Association, of which General Peppino Garibaldi is head, were shut down; that...
When you meet him in the comfortable study of his New York home, you meet the successful lawyer, son of a former Attorney-General of Massachusetts, quiet, reserved, positive, the man you can easily visualize as he must have looked when he took his position as prosecuting attorney. This personality he now gives to letters with the same quiet determination. He is still young; and the shelf of his own books is already large. He has written wisely of American society and business. There is no reason why he should not some day write that penetrating study of the great...