Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spanish-American War he functioned as a fiery guerilla leader. Then he turned his attention to the Cuban American Sugar Co., took charge of the largest sugar estate on the island. In 1912, he was elected President of Cuba on the Conservative ticket. He was reelected in 1916. "Unemotional, quiet, determined, honest, economical, friendly to the U.S. say friends of Menocal...
Coming back to town from the quiet of Vermont hills is trial enough, without writing about town authors. Therefore, I am choosing one of the Vermont group with which to reopen my column after an ever-so-slight vacation. Sara Cleghorn has been lecturing at the School of English, Bread Loaf Inn, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. She is poet, novelist, essayist. Those of you who read The Atlantic Monthly know her work well. I had always heard of her as one of the group of writers who live near or in Manchester, Vt.?a friend of Dorothy Canfield Fisher...
Slight, with light, sandy hair, blue eyes, quiet, intense ways, she gives an immediate impression of great friendliness. She believes thoroughly in people and in life. She wants happiness for people and she is willing to make real sacrifices to create it for them. Her great ambition now is to be a fine teacher, and, if need be, she intends to give up writing in order to become one, and has accepted a position as a teacher for next year. I sat in some of her classes and they were unusual for their discussions. She seems peculiarly fitted to draw...
...fact remains that the two American Secretaries, Mellon and Hughes, did have quiet little private meetings with Ramsay MacDonald, with Doumergue, with Herriot, with Millerand, with Poincaré, with Theunis, with Paul Hymans, with Chancellor Marx and other men who rule the destinies of Europe. And it is a safe bet for any intelligent American that Messrs. Hughes and Mellon did not go to Europe just to exchange small talk with the notables of the world...
...messages, but from a different man. The old man, once a god of the Death's Head Hussars, is regarded by even so discriminating a people as the French as the greatest tactician of the War and referred to by them as having " the soft, sweet manner, the quiet firmness in giving orders, the unruffled pose at Headquarters and the coolness that belong to a great military genius...