Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following day the Labor benches were quieter than usual and the Government proposal to relegate to committee the grievances expressed on behalf of ex-service men was carried by 242 to 135 votes...
...Over 600 pounds were collected, which is a record in Cambridge for a one day collection. Part of the scheme for attracting money consisted of a mock circus consisting of undergraduates dressed up in the skins of animals who paraded the town making appropriate noises. The evening was much quieter than usual and very few bonfires were lighted where they ought not to have been...
...overture to "Phedre" made a brilliant opening to the concert. This work shows Massenet as a master; it is colorful and has the force which "Thais" lacks. In the quieter and more plaintive passages it does not become the perfumed music we are accustomed to associate with Massenet...
...remarkably capable of expression. It has been long since we have seen an sector with so expressive a month. Although his outburst at the end of the second act, when he assails the lover of his wife, is magnificently powerful and his reaction equally affecting. It is in the quieter scenes that Ben-Ami's talents are at their best. The opening tete-a-tete with his wife and the scene at the beginning of the third act when the now insane Petter talks with the frightened maid, are done with delightful command and vividness...