Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tremendous rise in prices during and since the war has severely restricted the jollities which a student's budget formerly permitted; the gallant roysterer, who danced all night and slept all day, has been replaced by a changeling, a quiet fellow, pinched and shabby, who stands in line to get a little extra work, and who saves even on the midnight...
...group has always sought to preserve the manner of the old Boston School, rigorous, conservative, fastidious. Pictures of ships, girls, countrysides, they presented in their exhibition ?tall Boston clipper-ships, New England girls, New England landscapes etched in pearly monotones. Mr. Tarbell is represented by the type of quiet interior which won him notice at other of the Guild's exhibits; Mr. Paxton likewise with an interior, suave, adept ?a girl holding a cup, surfaces of flesh, porcelain, fabric, exquisitely touched. More spirited are the dancing sprites of Arthur Spear after the mode of Robert Chanler, the pencil...
Warren G. Harding did not know his future Secretary before the campaign of 1920, when Senator Capper brought them together. Upon his appointment, Mr. Wallace succeeded his friend of long standing, Edwin Thomas Meredith of Des Moines. In office, Mr. Wallace conducted the Department's affairs with quiet industry and without notable occurrences other than his staunch opposition to the proposed transfer of Alaskan forest reserves to the control of Secretary Fall's Department of the Interior. This fight was long and bitter. In his speech of July, 1923, President Harding let it be known that he sided with...
...Government."With a sad smile he concluded: "The royal guest had not got out of Chilean waters before I was obliged to take refuge in the American Legation. I was forced to leave Chile only a few days after the Italian Prince, who must have had a quiet chuckle to himself concerning the 'stability of our institutions...
Evidently the Boston police have not found students so quiet and peaceful, judging from the description of a riot occurring there some twenty years ago and mentioned by Captain Brennan...