Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prof. Albert Worsham, a humble man and an artist in his way, mounted the platform. Beside him was his quieter colleague, a onetime Mexican, whose cooperation during the lecture was perfect...
...them from being a big champion. Had a Scotchman been inclined to bet against Miss Wethered this year, he would probably have chosen either braw Cecil Leitch, unbeatable just before and just after the War (1914, '20, '21), or Glenna Collett, of Providence, R. I., a girl quieter than most of her countrymen, who had turned up with the Canadian and an old U. S. title (1922) in her record. A bye, a tidy win from the Welsh champion and, one misty morning, Miss Collett had her chance. They floated the Stars and Stripes with the Union Jack...
...becomes hard to guess at what he really aims and hard to believe that he himself knows at what he aims. . . . He shows a vein of intense personal hostility to the Prime Minister, whose quieter but galling gibes?never omitted ?had challenged a retort...
...Hospitality. The Keatons, four of them, combine to make this picture highly hilarious. Father Keaton, Mr. and Mrs. Buster and Baby Buster. Buster is, of course, the comic prop sustaining the family fortune. He is a trifle quieter than usual. He invades a Southern town where his ancestors feuded with the Canfields. The latter, unwittingly, invite him to their, house and find themselves in the uncomfortable position of not being able to shoot him owing to their reverence for the traditions of Southern hospitality. Mrs. Buster Keaton was, of course, Natalie Talmadge. She is nearly as exciting as her more...
...situation in Berlin is quieter, the Communist strike having utterly failed. In the rest of Germany, however, fighting and general disorders were reported, particularly at the following places...