Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...startling scoops,* whose vital pungency has won him more millions of daily readers than any other individual publisher can hoast. The other was Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the white-bearded little "man from Maine" whose Saturday Eve- ning Post and Ladies' Home Journal are as essentially sound and quiet as the Maine homes into one of which Publisher Curtis was born. Last week had Publisher Hearst seen Publisher Curtis he might well have been patronizing. The Hearst editor had won the most exciting journalist race of the year, although the field was publisher Curtis': magazines...
...then the smell of stale cigar smoke disturbs the quiet atmosphere of America's most antique daily in an incongruous fashion. Many a college graduate of the mauve decade whose four college years taught him the art of a polished dependence upon tradition must have shuddered last evening when he opened his Transcript to the page which bears the clippings headed School and College. Underneath a large cut of a well-known college president there ran a bold face paragraph which mixed up college men and Pullman smoking compartments with disquieting innuendo. Readers of the more widely circulated journals...
With him was Mrs. Stimson, quiet, self-effacing, always loyal to her husband's ascending career. As Mabel Wellington White of New Haven, Conn., the new second lady of the land married Statesman Stimson in 1893 when he was just entering Elihu Root's law firm and long before he became a statesman. In Manila last year she appeared at a state function in Balin-tawak (native costume). Being second lady holds no social terrors for her. She was well-schooled in official society as the wife of President Taft's Secretary...
Temporary seizure of diplomatic liquor en route from Baltimore to the Siamese legation had created an Incident that put the foreign corps in Washington on edge (TIME, March 25). Anxious to quiet ambassadorial nerves, the State Department obtained from the Treasury Department a red-taped but definite ruling that embassy liquor could be transported by private U.S. trucks and drivers without Federal molestation, provided an accredited diplomat was actually aboard the vehicle...
...seemed last week as though a mid-western cyclone had swooped upon the normally quiet campus of the University of Missouri. President Stratton Duluth Brooks stormed about "a fool trick without authorization of administrative forces." Irate alumni demanded student, even faculty expulsions. In St. Louis, Representative Robert F. Miller demanded a thorough investigation...