Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lately, Senator Curtis has trimmed up the drooping mustache which, with his black sombrero, used to distinguish him as an old-time politician. But he still works "on the inside," letting his effusive colleague, Senator Arthur Capper, do the handshaking, the rooster-boosting. He would make a quiet nominee and no crowd of political ' creditors would follow him around...
That he will be nominated at all calls, however, for quiet predictions, scarcely to be credited...
...pair of children are fixing a tricycle. In the space between the two houses across the street the sky slants a light on the asphalt, and makes the leaves of the trees as bright as coins. It is late afternoon; in the golden twilight everything seems very quiet. If you look at the picture long enough, the man sitting on the porch will fold up his paper and go in to have supper...
...accident insurance money built up an oil fortune big enough for him to help back the late Federal Baseball League (1915), to play with his Rancocas stables (including World's Champion Horse Zev) and to be offered (so the story goes)' the throne of Albania?fleshy but firm, quiet but quick-eyed, Harry P. Sinclair sat erect and whispered incessantly with his counsel...
Omitting all reference to the desirability of any sort of public revelry in connection with the name of Harvard one may confine himself to a discussion of the decency of the affair. Enough has been said--perhaps too much--concerning Harvard's penchant for the quiet, the restrained, the indifferent. The CRIMSON firmly believes, however, that if any attitude is typical of the University it is this one. The chasm of trite collegiatism is too deep to warrant any precarious flirtations with its slopes...