Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that you get in a concert hall. In the first several rows you do not get the deafening ill-balance that you get in a similar position in an auditorium. The distant rumbling of street cars and elevated trains and the honking of automobile horns in the middle of quiet passages give interruptions that are not essentially unpleasant, but which raise a characteristic mood for the outdoor performance...
Newspapers of the future will use the narrative style. Articles, by giving cause and effect, will be more coherent. Stereotyped leads for stories will be abandoned. These predictions were made by Harry Hansen, quiet and seasoned journalist of the Chicago Daily News, who spoke to editors during Journalism Week at the University of Missouri...
...unfortunate that as soon as Uncle Sam and John Bull sit down together to smoke a quiet pipe of peace, one or the other always lets slip some inadvertent bit which blights their budding amity. Uncle Sam, with his bluff, outspoken manner, has been charged most frequently with this offense, but now there can be no doubt that John has been the offender. However happy Americans have felt over the settlement of the British debt question, they cannot but take umbrage now when London challenges New York's title to speed. Certainly nothing could teach them more nearly, and they...
...hard to see what good will result if the skull of Pocahontas is dug up from a quiet resting place at Gravesend. The site of Troy may well reveal historical secrets. Luxor may give up relies, and the buried city of Herculaneum may contain valuable manuscripts yet undiscovered. There is still plenty of chance for further archacologizing. But why should a man wish to dig up his supposed ancestors! If it be merely to test the efficacy of the curse to fall on the desecrator of her grave, he might well wait until Sir Conan Doyle has definitely proved...
...didn't go. Stella just was " impossible." She loved noise and flamboyant clothes and musical comedies and giggling semi-flirtations. Stephen liked symphony-concerts and improving books and quiet. They produced one daughter, Laurel, at first to Stella's loudly expressed distaste. Then Stephen took a job in New York. They drifted apart?at last were separated. Stella herself was getting commoner and commoner. Meanwhile Stephen had resumed a strictly intellectual acquaintance with a highly refined first-love, now widowed?and had become well...