Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. After his harrying of the late Invincible Armada, Sir Oliver Tressilian has returned to his estate in Cornwall, resolved on a quiet life and marriage with fair Rosamund Godolphin. He is, however, taunted with his former piracy by Rosamund's young brother, Peter, and by Sir John Killigrew, who also wishes to marry Rosamund. Of course the great Sir Walter Raleigh and Hawkins had in their time been pirates and knighted for it by Queen Elizabeth; but Sir Oliver rightly resents the insult and nearly kills Sir John in a duel. Unfortunately young Lionel Tressilian, a scapegrace, kills...
...stand it no longer. The line cracked and broke and in a few seconds the splendid hall seethed like hell's own kitchen. The few police were power-less-what could mere men do? More were hurried to the spot without effect, until finally firemen were appealed to to quiet burning Scotland, and with a double cordon of the sterner sex-firmly established, the election continued to its end when, as in a recent Mexican affair, "not much blooded was reported...
...Muriel's romantic ideals about men are shattered by her finding that the melancholy " painter " is only a house painter, and so she is willing to marry the quiet but excellent Renfrew Mears...
...Some are mere sketches, some full-length, none are wholly serious. All abound in laughing observation of the antics of children and young lovers, all are excellent in the reproduction of Negro dialect and children's prattle. None is profound or disturbing, keeping the level of a quiet humor. The critics. The New York Times: " It is as if Mr. Tarkington kept a day book of observations-drawn from a very nice neighborhood." Robert Cortes Holiday: "Mr. Tarkington seems to present himself as a rather playful neurologist. Something like a scientific interest may be discerned running through the collection...
...Carl Sandburg is the focal point of Chicago literary life. He breathes Chicago. He is Chicago. If you would understand that banging, sweeping city with its stockyards and its shining lakefront, read The Windy City. No poem, perhaps, ever epitomized a city so successfully. Sandburg is tall, stooping, quiet, his voice, hesitant and booming. To explore Chicago streets with Sandburg on a summer day is to learn the spirit of the town...