Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon Athens with two tanks. Ammunition stored in one of the tanks exploded, killing its crew and several bystanders. A pitched battle in which some 50 persons were killed ensued up and down the Kifissia Boulevard. At last Dictator Kondylis announced from the justly suspected telegraph office: "Athens is quiet, and the situation is well in hand." A subsequent despatch told of reports that the Royalist leader Colonel Plastiras was marching upon Athens with intent to coup...
...this quiet account* of his doings, Digger Andrews makes plain what a sizable undertaking it has been. Other scientists pooh-poohed the notion of fossils lying in one of the globe's most desolate wildernesses. Travelers said that no fleet of Dodge, or any other, cars could go where even camels limp. China teemed with soldiers and brigands. Drought and sand storms were growing yearly worse. . . . But the Dodges pulled again. Urga was reached and passed again and again. Heady preparations, an invaluable caravan chief and keen diplomacy made life not merely possible but enjoyable. Good humor, good sportsmanship...
...When she was a high school girl in Lawrence, Kan., a dashing young Army officer taught her to ride horseback and do higher mathematics. This officer has since been known as Gen. John J. Pershing and while he was helping to conduct the War, Dorothy Canfield did "the steady, quiet work of holding life together" in relief stations behind the lines. She is a Ph. D., having studied at Ohio State University (during the presidency of her father, Dr. James Hulme Canfield) and at Columbia University. She married John Redwood Fisher, a Columbia football captain. With her artist mother...
...regular exercise for the promotion of better writing and the edification of the public, is practiced professionally by a scanty corporal's guard. Critic Sherman was eminently of this group, despite the fact that much of his work was laden with a heavy ego. He lacked the quiet clarity of Dr. Henry Seidel Canby of the Saturday Review. He was an lowan, with the midlander's tendency to lunge into emotional appreciations. Sparkle was not in him, as it is in that erudite, free-lancing Irishman, Ernest Boyd. His opinions savored strongly of the pundit, even after...
...face to be a carved Christ's; resigns herself once more to loving the celluloid doll in her store-window demonstration of a patent crib. There are moments when the author's sensitive comprehension threatens to quaver and mawk, but these moments are rare and in them quiet ecstasy is equally imminent. Some may say that the frustrated or guilty woman appears rather more frequently in Benefield stories than seems natural; that he is thus limited, perhaps hipped. But not even Hawthorne touched this subject with purer compassion; and a man must do what he can do best...