Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattanites went last week to a fish show, which is quieter than a dog show, prettier than a horse show. At a fish show, small creatures with few desires swim around in their tanks, staring out with gulps of incredulity at the pallid, blurred faces of monsters moving awkwardly in another element...
Erik Huneker (now in his 30's) is of quieter disposition. He has been connected with the musical world mainly through publicity departments, at one time working for the Metropolitan Opera Company. No berserk lion, he will nevertheless have ample opportunity to struggle with a big task. It is the purpose of Opera Comique, Inc., so named in files of proposed corporations in Albany, to raise $6,800,000 by the sale of preferred and common stock. Special charter subscribers who take $4,000 worth of preferred will receive in perpetuity two seats to weekly performances. Charter subscribers...
...TIME would drop the use of such words, and would change its "screaming red cover" to one of quieter hue, it would please the more conservative taste of some of its readers. ALICE DRESSER BARTHOLOMEW...
Thomas F. Logan is just the opposite of the aggressive, hammering, obviously successful Lasker. He is slimmer, fairer, quieter -not smoother, for dynamos of the Lasker type are well-oiled-but gentler, more subtly persuasive. His training was that of a journalist-economist, after a genteel boyhood and Jesuit education in Philadelphia. He was a Washington correspondent and there learned the ins and outs of politics, which stood him in good stead when, in 1919, he started an advertising company in Manhattan with no accounts at all. His first act was to undertake, for the Association of Railroad Executives...
...Fundamentalist tenets but held "that the Presbyterian system admits of diversity of view when the core of truth is identical." It asked for the commission's continuance for another year to study the constitutional questions involved?i.e., delayed decision in the matter of the New York Presbytery until a quieter...