Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...philanthropic activities of the University, and takes a leading part in the reception and welcoming of new students and foreign students. In addition, it places itself at the service of any and all students and groups of students in the University, either as a place for meetings or for quiet thought and reading...
...daughter Miss Anna Freedel; also their neighbors, Mrs. Rebecca Labowitz and Mr. Charles Rice. That made Mrs. Freedel think the young dog was sick. So she took it to the Animal Rescue League, whose veterinarians diagnosed the ailment as dumb rabies, the variety in which the sick beast remains quiet and sullen until an overcurious human pokes at it. This dog died; the four rabies victims are receiving Pasteur treatment, and Pittsburgh has a "mad dog" scare...
...House (1924). Having renounced Philadelphia with all other cities, soon after his graduation from Princeton (1904), Author Burt often visits cities, knows them thoroughly; but his Wyoming ranch has been his home. There he has produced, besides beef and horses, short stories and poetry of high literary merit and quiet wisdom. Lately he bought an estate in South Carolina but it was to the Tetons of Wyoming that he returned when his old friend and professor, Dr. Henry van Dyke, asked for a book about mountains...
...lady of better days with tempestuous zeal before her awestricken secretary to the down-hearted young man who found his salvation in the little known occupation, of goldfish expert, many odd and enticing characters flood the pages. There is the demeure girl of many lovers. There is the quiet old gentleman whose wife proved to be a dope flend. There is the tender-hearted but masterful young lady whose happiness, which consisted in reforming others, was inevitably followed by tragedy when some untoward incident broke her spell and the convert, be it lover or friend or fellow employee, backslid...
...young author of Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo and The Sailor's Return does none of these things. In his matter-of-fact fashion, so quiet that it becomes mysterious, he makes her father a sort of pocket-borough St. Francis of Assisi. He fills her heart with restlessness and her head with innocent resolution, keeps her procrastinating over escape until her father's mania for feeding birds is quite pronounced, until she has a friend and perhaps lover in the grocer's son, until one more village Easter passes and the first nightingale...