Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From his quiet home at Bateman's Burwash, Sussex, Mr. Rudyard Kipling (cousin of Premier Stanley Baldwin, their mothers having been two of the four famed Macdonald sisters) contributed some verses to the British Gazette, the Government's emergency anti-strike newspaper...
Cocky little boats with pale sails, maneuvering this way and that on quiet water like a fleet of river butterflies, swerved at the sound of a gun and passed between a committee yacht and a red buoy, putting out of Larchmont harbor into Long Island Sound. They were the interclub sloops (Marconi-rigged yachts, 19½ feet on the water line), the new racing boats; and their appearance meant that the yacht-racing season had begun again in Eastern waters. Soon the boats of the other classes -the graceful, low-leaning "S" boats with their big spread of canvas...
...most significant financial incident last week was the quiet withdrawal of the $100,000,000 bankers' loan to Italy. J. P. Morgan & Co. last fall headed a syndicate of 1,000 banks to float this loan, which was made immediately upon the arrangement of the Italian debt settlement. Enthusiasts oversubscribed the bonds at 94%, but their subsequent sale has been most lethargic. Last week the bankers withdrew their support, and the quotations dropped at once to around 89 with very little turnover...
...John d'Arcy, a tricky swipe but polished, instead of to fine young Dermot McDermot of Dermotstown, as brave a lad of the old land as was in it, so that she might be a great lady and go about the world instead of stopping always in the quiet country among horses, dogs and simple folk; and of what came of it, including the talk that Jimmy the Hangman's house was haunted after his death until it blazed to the ground-all this is a strange, touching story that might or might not have happened just...
...made Connaught O'brien with dusky hair and slender perfections and a strong but quiet tongue, and Dermot McDermot honorable, sure in his saddle and loved by dogs-of which there are many about-terriers, deerhounds, foxhound packs and puppies, and the red setter Rory. He wrote the love-making of these two as a slow, certain thing of wry humor and restrained ecstasy, and, as the Irish are, a little...