Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward Everett Gann, an unassuming man, long led a quiet life in Washington. He practiced law, he made some money. He never troubled his head about Society and Society never troubled its head about him. Edward Everett Gann was a happy...
...socially secure, who hold themselves aloof from the comings and goings of the ever-shifting official set. Their women wear pompadours, subscribe to charities, keep their names out of the newspapers. As social stage managers, the Cave-dwellers entertain only the most select officials. Their parties are small and quiet. In return, they are invited to the most exclusive official functions...
McCarthy is a quiet, unostentatious leader. He did not make a Big League name as a player. In the minor leagues he was considered a competent, not a brilliant infielder, but eventually he became a manager at Louisville (American Association). He began winning pennants. He attracted Tycoon Wrigley's eye. At Chicago he built carefully, and his final punch came with the acquisition of Rogers Hornsby, for whom he traded five players and considerable currency to Boston. The addition of Hornsby gives Chicago a "Murderer's Row" of batters comparable to the famed Yankee quartet of Ruth, Gehrig...
...losing oneself in something beyond oneself." Occasionally, an Indian name came to his lips, hesitant syllables cascaded to a tenebrous penult: Rabindranath Tagore. Sometimes he men- tioned Mahatma Gandhi. Then he seemed to look beyond his audience to India "which is my first love." His face was very quiet. "You cannot bow one knee to Nietzsche and another to Christ," he said...
...crystallized in his mind into what was tantamount to a vision. Figuratively he saw the Galilean walking along an Indian road. He must offer the Christ, not in a Western setting, to which by historic accident he seemed to belong, but in an Indian setting. Thereafter, mostly among the quiet intellectual Brahmans but also among the outcastes, he preached the Christ, not Western, but universal. Him they would accept because they had spiritual accord with the mysticism of his life and suffering. But where loomed the encroachments of Western civilization they cringed, or turned away...