Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiet has been the official tongue about the proceedings of the Anglo-Russian parley in London (TIME, Apr. 28, May 19, June 16) that many were the people who had almost forgotten its existence...
Changing Husbands. Dual identity breaks out again on the screen, after lying quiet for a while. Pictures wherein two persons with absolute resemblance exchange places are always unconvincing, even though a theatrical paper not so long ago reported that an actress substituted for a wife, as is done in this picture. Here Leatrice Joy plays both the actress desirous of domesticity and the wife with an itch to act. To American audiences, it will probably seem a very serious business when they shift husbands...
...troops. The horse became frightened at the cheering crowds. He bucked and nearly collided with a horse ridden by the aged Duke of Connaught alongside the Queen's carriage, and I was forced to abandon the procession and to turn him back and ride him home along a quiet route. Said the newspapers: 'The incident recalls the time the King was thrown from his horse in France during the war and was painfully injured.'" William McFee, famed British author: "In a Commencement address at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill., I made a few remarks in opposition to those...
...hand about the hearth among our homespun neighbors and say thus he spoke and thus we answered." But in spite of all this, or very likely because of it, he has transcribed an altogether delightful account of this picturesque ramble. He insists, through blithe pages sprinkled with woodcuts and quiet humor, on sharing with his reader everything from the smell of quaint, stagecoachy old inns to a "stomach-ache acquired delightfully on Devon strawberries...
ANCIENT FIRES-I. A. R. Wylie- Button ($2.00). Just why the hero of this breathless, love-and-adventure, intrigue-and-heroism tale had to be named John Smith remains a mystery. The story starts out in a quiet little English cathedral town, but the pace rapidly grows too swift for that atmosphere, so the locale is blithely transferred to one of those imaginary, comic-opera little countries in Central America...