Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Gurney Cannon, grand old man of Congress, will retire from public life. At the age of 86, having served 23 terms in the House of Representatives, he feels that he has earned the right to spend the rest of his life in the quiet seclusion of Danville, Illinois. Uncle Joe is something more than a politician with an age-record. He is the embodiment of a tradition, a political theory, a technique of party government and discipline that is fast perishing. He represents the Old Guard in the very flower of its maturity, in the palmy days of McKinley...
...dignified and quiet language, two thousand Negro women of the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. protested against a proposal to erect at the Capitol a statue to "The Black Mammy of the South." A spokesman carried the resolution to Vice President Coolidge and Speaker Gillette and begged them to use their influence against "the reminder that we come from a race of slaves...
...Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General from California, has been accorded much quiet honor in the Department of Justice. During the illness of Attorney General Daugherty she has had charge of a great deal of important work, and has recently completed a report on the application of the Prohibition Act to American ships on the high seas. She is head of the division which handles prohibition and tax law cases...
...Hollywood," said Mr. Zukor, "is a very quiet place." He paused. "How disappointing!" chorused the reporters politely. "A very quiet place," he resumed, emphatically, "No drinking-very little smoking. And as for the evenings-they're just as quiet! Why, they're practically inaudible. No sound at all but the popping of the California poppies." And the reporters went disconsolately away...
...which is to lift Mexico from turbulence and rebellion to a place of dignity and credit among the nations of the world." Today, Mexico admittedly is more at peace than at any time in the last decade. The important revolutionists are dead or in enforced retirement; the Villistas are quiet; lesser malcontents alone still pursue their business sacking small villages, pillaging haciendas, or accepting the money of sanguine rebels on the American side of the border. But peace, prosperity and human perfection are not to be expected all at once. The Mexican army, once given official recognition to distinguish...