Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little volume in large type, hardly any thicker than The Saturday Evening Post, about one-quarter the latter's size and retailing at just 15 times the latter's price. The book omits the two cartoons which accompanied the essay originally and lent point to its remarks about a quiet, hard-working, soft-spoken, pestered...
...Nine Communists were killed and 30 wounded. The casualties among the troops are unknown. Langen. Revolutionary Committee of unemployed clashed on several occasions with the security police. Many casualties resulted. In addition to these places minor disturbances occurred in places too numerous to mention. The situation is expected to quiet down as soon as the Government in Berlin begins to make its influence felt outside the capital...
...This quiet New Englander of middle age, whom one sees at the circus with his two boys, has written, by and large, over 100 plays. Many of them have been melodramatic thrillers in which the actors tore the scenery and heroes flung themselves valiantly before hissing villains. Mr Davis has now chosen to become a realist. Two seasons ago he wrote a grim drama called The Detour and was canonized by the critics. Last year his Icebound, a genuinely human picture of his native Maine folks, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His place among American dramatists is therefore assured, along...
...numberless metallic sounds forming the ceaseless, surf-like roar of New York's monotone. But there was one entity of that roar which was almost missing, the sound of the human voice. . . . New York . . . spoke only when it had to,, and then for the most part in quiet, repressed monosyllables . . . This silence was maintained all day. Never was there such a lack of conversation along Broadway or Fifth Avenue, or in office or factory...
...English Lawn Tennis Association is not opposed to .these exposures in the quiet privacy of five or ten thousand people around the courts at Wimbledon. It does object to circulation of the pictures, which " will bring the sport into disrepute" among the masses...