Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morsieur Perrin, according to his report on another page, appears to have been put in a quandary over American theatrical tastes by New York and its audiences. Having formed through many years of observation a theory that Americans feast delicately upon quiet and refined concoctions, what was his consternation to find that, after all, the Grand Guignol players must serve highly spiced preparations to attract a crowd. Moreover, he is struck by the oddity that staid American audiences "run wild" in Paris by going to see the somewhat strong repertoire which the Grand Guignol presents there...
...Count de Chantelaur's mind has become stagnant and weary of his quiet married life in his castle, and he dreams longingly of those bachelor days,-society, the races, and the club. A friend suggests that he get himself elected to the national legislature. This thought appealed to the Count, but he shied at the idea of the cares and troubles of the political campaign...
Thus did the crabbed cynic ridicule those who made marble mausoleums for a heap of ashes. But those of us who have never achieved living in a wine cask, insist upon at least six feet of quiet sod and an undisturbed headstone. For, as Dr. Rand has observed, the living might find some more appropriate way of honoring the dead than by carting the bones around...
...continued, in the age of the motor, the movie and the radio, which with freedom of locomotion, novel and easy intimacies, and the everpresent and constantly expanding enterprise of the press give us a delusive facility in acquiring information. It is the day of fleeting vision. Concentration, thoroughness, the quiet reflection that ripens the judgement are more difficult than ever...
...horse-car hustle of Harvard and the scholastic quiet at Oxford cannot find place in the same category. In Oxford, man walks, talks, and has his being in an atmosphere of scholasticism...