Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politically pugnacious husband occupy the spotlight. He does it so spectacularly. It seems to have become our duty to eat all the dinners that Washington people would like to have the President and Mrs. Coolidge enjoy. As the social buttresses of the Administration, we rarely find time for a quiet evening at home...
...great wind was blowing from England at almost 90 miles per hour. The plane was speeding like an arrow through the wind and yet was standing still while the tugboat crept forward. At a touch of the pilot's controls the air liner soared up to quiet air, sped on toward London, left the tug behind...
Newsgatherers, who present only Il Duce, ruthless, blatant, were vexed by this unmasking of the quiet, singularly winning man who Signor Mussolini can become when he chooses...
...sabbatical leave travelling in Italy. In a letter recently received from him by the Boston Transcript, he says that the chief consideration that led him to make the change was the health of his wife and himself, which, he writes, will be improved in a warmer climate amid more quiet suroundings...
...House has been used for seventy-three meetings other than those mentioned above at which 4284 people have been present. Altogether the total number who have used the House for meetings is 7823. A considerable number of men use the library and pariors of the House every day for quiet reading and writing. It is especially helpful to those men who live at home and have no place to make their headquarters during...