Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orango, youthful village butcher, just turned cowpuncher, enters an adobe hut in Chihuahua, Mexico, rendezvous of the smart sporting fraternity. He sits down to a quiet game. Presently an Army officer questions his play. Orango smiles. The officer cries "cheat," and Orango .shoots Mm dead across the table. Orango dashes out, jumps on a horse, and rides into the night-covered mountains-no longer Orango, but Francisco Villa, bandit, known to his friends as La Cucaracha, "the cockroach...
Recently returned from a year in London is Joseph Anthony, a young American writer whose two novels are not so well known as they should be. Anthony is a quiet man, with slow speech, slow dreams; but they are profound. He has, too, a profound artistic creed which was manifest in the care shown in the writing of his novels. The Gang, a picture of boy life and street life in Manhattan, was received with unusual praise in England as well as in the United States. Of his new novel, he has already destroyed one draft. He says that...
Brand Whitlock, Ambassador to Belgium during the war, is to return to America during the summer. He has been writing a novel at a quiet spot near Mentone on the Riviera. Now he expects to settle in Westchester County, N. Y., (near New York City) and busy himself with writing...
...expected quiet of late Spring has descended upon the markets, and prices cannot be said to have shown any really significant changes during the past week. Most sensational of the happenings in the financial markets has been the fall of the mark to another low record for all time, although after the record output of nearly one trillion paper marks in a single week, this development is not illogical. As bearing upon the general situation, probably the most important happening has been the establishment for the third successive month of an import surplus in our foreign trade of May, amounting...
Word now comes that in the quiet of his Mississippi home he is rereading Horace, Homer, and Sophocles, love for which were developed 50 years ago at the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.), at the Uni-versity of Virginia and at the Uni-versity of Heidelberg...