Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abstain, I beseech you, from all personal attacks. Remember France of which you are representatives. She is worthy of your respect. We will honor her in showing ourselves worthy of her. While France is watching you, other countries are watching you, too." After this speech had failed to quiet the Deputies, Premier Poincaré and the whole Cabinet marched out of the Chamber...
Anderson, as I remember, is part Italian. He is a stocky, quiet, soft-voiced man, with great dark gentle eyes. I fancy he has spent most of his life being patient, then suddenly running away from life with an elaborate and perhaps unnecessary gesture. He was born at Camden, Ohio, where he was educated in the public schools. Later he worked as a laborer, fought in the Spanish-American War, wrote advertising copy, won The Dial Prize, attained a vogue in advanced literary circles, was married twice. He recently sued his second wife for divorce, charging her with desertion...
...months and one day after Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the U. S., died in San Francisco, his immediate predecessor, Woodrow Wilson, passed away at the Capital. At 11:20 of a quiet Sunday morning Admiral Grayson, his physician, emerged from the door of the ex-President's S Street home and faced the silent crowd which had gathered in the street. From a yellow slip of paper in his hand he read the official bulletin announcing that Mr. Wilson's death had taken place five minutes earlier. Many years before he entered the Presidency...
...Germany, to Singapore instead of building a costly graving dock. It became evident that the Government had not dropped the Singapore Base project, which Labor had been so prominent in denouncing. It was likewise assumed that Britain's most popular Admiral, Lord Beatty, would not resign. The utmost quiet reigned...
...from luncheon, and I asked him What he thought of Lord Grey's letter." Or an interview with Foch 'during the dangerous German drive of 1918: "General Foch, before answering, took a few whiffs from his 2? cigar and looked at me with a smile of quiet confidence in his bright brown eyes. 'They won't break through,' he said, and the words were as percussive as pistol shots...