Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work was done and over the quiet hills...
...capacity, the Post Office being the largest job-pasture in the Government (365,000 workers). Since President Hoover has evinced an interest in Government reorganization, perhaps the Brown Plan of 1921 will emerge from its pigeonhole. Otherwise, and perhaps even so, Mr. Brown may be counted on as a quiet yes-peg with a political point...
...friends regard him as Moist, if not Wet. To jack up the saggine morale of the Navy will be a man-sized job for him, which he will doubtless undertake with his usual quiet determination. He may be a yes-man to the White House occupant but to the admirals who flock around every Navy chief with selfish advice and suggestions he will most likely listen patiently and then, a seadog himself, bark...
...which the spieler, armed with a tent stake, fights his way out of a battle with a mob of "rubes." Fred Kohler, Alan Hale, graceful Renee Adoree and a competent minor cast replace with simple, effective acting the sentimentality common to this type of picture. Best shot: the quiet, sinister mob jostling in the midway...
...problem of the hijacker is one which at present effectually bunkers us, but we hope after some experience and quiet meditation to be able to cope even with this...