Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bonar Law, like President Harding, was elected to office because he is a conservative and therefore could be trusted to administer the country in a quiet, calm and dignified manner, without rushing into new and dangerous legislation. Bonar Law's term of office is conspicuous for its lack of enterprise. Nothing important, excepting the Baldwin Budget, was accomplished. He was content to keep Britain out of the Ruhr, to let trade take its own course, to keep out of foreign politics as much as possible. He cannot claim any credit for the agreement with Washington on the British debt; that...
...golden opinions for himself as American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, imitates in this regard his friend's shrinking from publicity. But it is observed that the ex-Ambassador is in great demand for public speeches and that he is seldom introduced without some quiet reference to the gifts that 1924 may bring...
...Story. Still waters run deep -a quiet pool contains, unseen by the casual observer, a whole society of strange and opposite creatures, thrown together by chance or nature, fiercely loving and hating. So Eamor, an English country house, where life in general seemed to move as calmly and placidly as a still day in August, proved the focus and battleground for a certain group of di- verse, opposed personalities, related by accidental ties of blood or fate. The secret, incessant clash of these personalities, now and then flaring out into active conflict as abrupt as the glitter of lightning, serves...
...great, solitary minds? To test out my theory, I went to the Copley Plaza this evening where Boston's social life centres in all its worst aspects. I had determined to show my complete unconsciousness of all that stupidity of convention which these people affect. I wore my usual quiet air of assurance and my customary yellow flannel shirt (I should have preferred my other one,--which is more appropriately black,--but that I left at the Comrades' headquarters in New York) which I leave independently unbuttoned at the throat. Of course, I never use the affectation...
...night, an hour before the Sabbath. A gang of sturdy white men, geared out with ropes and revolvers surround the jail. They curse the sputtering Sheriff, and sledgehammer at the steel walls. Then, acetylene flames; and soon the leader has dragged out a Negro. The gang, now quiet, packs for the country. Fifty automobiles follow, respectfully curious...