Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, the whole production, coming after Miss Taylor's sunny California radiance, seems bathed in a quiet, phosphorescent glow. Miss Keener, in endeavoring to portray the little Irish-American girl who-flung into the center of a snobbish English household-shows up its caddishness and wins a handsome Cholly-boy for herself, handles her part with kid gloves...
...business continue to come in, it is apparent that the months of February and March this year marked a "peak" in the most active industries. April has seen a consistent decline in the basic industries, particularly iron and steel, and the assumption now seems to be for a quiet Summer, with a possible rally in the markets in the Fall if the likelihood for Mr. Coolidge's re-election is strong...
...William M. Butler, like Mr. Coolidge, was in days gone by a protege of the late Senator Winthrop Murray Crane. Both have quiet unostentatious ways of doing things, both can spare words, both have a certain primitive honesty. Butler, now gray, portly, 63, wearer of double glasses, comes of an old New Bedford family. At 16 he was at work in a New Bedford shoe factory. Later he went away from New Bed- ford to go into law and politics. Now he runs, on the side, a few cotton mills in New Bedford...
...entirely possible, if not probable, that the Democratic nomination will go neither to McAdoo nor Smith nor even to Underwood, but to some favorite son or dark horse. Such quiet candidates as Senator Carter Glass, David F. Houston, ex-Secretary of Agriculture, or possibly the oft-suggested compromise, Ralston, may make away with the prize in a warring Convention...
...better kind of phosphorus for matches is the red variety, which is used on the box in making safety matches, and catches fire if you rub it hard enough with the powdered glass and active chemicals in the head of the match. This is a mild-mannered, quiet sort of a substance, it doesn't catch fire in the air until you heat it quite hot, it won't dissolve in anything, and it can be eaten without any discomfort...