Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Robert has been described as "silent, quiet, destitute of elegance, apparently absentminded, cold, courteous.'" A London newspaper said of him, that, being a Cecil, "he was denied by racial antecedents all capacity to excite himself." Lord Robert is a lawyer, and is as well versed in ecclesiastical as in international law. He is a devoted and sincere Christian, and has probably done as much to get people to go to church as has any living man. In spite of being so well equipped, he has devoted most of his days to politics and, as a result...
...Crown Prince, who arrived quite safely at Oels in Silesia and received a quiet welcome from the natives, said he had put aside his ambition and was prepared to work on his estate for Germany. Chancellor Stresemann defended his return by saying that " this is no time to make martyrs. . . . An outcry would have been raised not only by the Nationalists but by the German people if a father of a family were not allowed to come back after five years' expulsion from his native country." Dr. von Hoesch, German Chargé d'Affaires in Paris, also defended...
...years it seems to have been the accepted axiom that Yale graduates are to be accorded the palm over Harvard men in American literature. It is an axiom with which I disagree--unless a more prolific output and more vociferous claquing can be weighed in the balance with quiet, individual progress and depth of tone. Mr. Pulsifer, as a Harvard graduate, comes to my rescue very opportunely...
There is enough allegory in the book for anyone who will look for it, and a certain quiet satire that grows with reflection. The story is plainly told, with no pretense toward straining for effect. Mr. Pulsifer has something that he wants to say, that he honestly believes to be worth more than the paper it is printed on--which is quite a distinction nowadays--and he carries out his wishes and his beliefs in a straightforward manner. But what is most encouraging of all is the feeling of the reader that the author has not taxed himself...
...crux of the situation lay in the question: Is Greece to have a Republican constitution? Advised by Britain, Yugo-Slavia and Rumania not to discard the present dynasty on account of its important connections with the Balkan Powers,* Dictator Colonel Gonatas and his Government tried to quiet down the opposition by abolishing the press censorship, promising the abolition of martial law after the trial of those arrested in a recent revolt, appointing Foreign Minister Apostolos Alexandris as delegate on the Reparations Commission. Republican sentiment, however, refused to be appeased so easily and the clamor for a change...