Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasure to send you renewal of my subscription by this mail. When I neglect some duty to slip off to a quiet place with TIME each week I feel like a small boy with the oldtime "Penny Dreadful" and enjoy it just as much. Incidentally I "keep posted...
...fellow Senator from Nebraska, (1911-23) was his most cherished foe. But year by year his fire died down as he found the institutions he fought as impregnably intrenched as ever. In 1923, Senator Hitchcock, defeated, retired; Senator Norris, robbed of both foe and issues yearned for a quiet life on the Nebraskan plains. But, back to the Senate he went, disillusioned...
...Adair was conductor of the first railroad train that entered the city (1845). When Union troops burned the town in the Civil War, he was already doing a real estate business there; and he, as much as anyone else, helped the rebuilding. His sons? able, active Forrest and able, quiet George?continued to trade lots. At one time or another these men and their sons have handled practically every piece of real estate in Atlanta. Forrest Adair has won national repute among Masons for beginning, at Atlanta, the movement for Masonic hospitals for crippled children. He is a Past Illustrious...
...jury will not hesitate to convict the fourth time with the resulting life penalty provided the evidence is clear. Crime can be suppressed when it is necessary and the measure is one of the best passed in recent years for the limitation of robbery. Although the average man is quiet and does not talk so much as the man who has picked up a lot of catch words and uses them meaninglessly, nevertheless It is of such quiet men and women that juries are composed and the power to convict is in their hands...
Respectable Brooklynites grew vexed at the slurs which the Crime Commission made on the Red Hook children. Said a priest of the neighborhood: "When I look at these beautiful innocent little children, so quiet and nice in manner, I have a feeling that they are entirely too gentle and soft for the rough world that awaits them...