Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very quiet and unaffected, speaks in a low quiet voice, has a twinkle in his greenish grey eyes. One can judge readily enough that he would not take a drink nowadays, not for any hypocritical reasons but because he would regard it as lawbreaking. In fact, he seems to be a likable sort, upright, not courting the limelight, not endowed with the graces that make for success in society?but likable. But of course this is not Andrew Volstead. Volstead is a myth. Volstead is a figure as noble as John Barleycorn is sinister, a powerful crusader, a tower...
...himself stepped out of his house. Visions of poor Bonservizi lying murdered swam before my eyes. Signaling my companions to help me, I sprang upon Matteotti, pushed him into the motor car and then myself took the wheel and drove rapidly away. I intended to take him to some quiet spot and question him concerning his share in the murder of Bonservizi...
Historical Society, the Bureau of British Universities, the American University Union. The district is quiet and dignified, well served by tram, tube and busses, seemingly an ideal spot for a concentrated university quarter. The option was to expire April 1, but up to last week the University of London had done nothing towards taking it up. A dozen reasons were given-the site was too cramped, too citified, too expensive. The real reason was concealed- the "bigwigs" of the University's colleges were afraid of being nudged and bunted by one another's reputations and personalities if brought...
...platform in Detroit last January sat a quiet, alert, well-dressed man. Close to him sat Robert C. Graham, Vice President and General Sales Manager of Dodge Brothers, Inc. Before him in the amphitheatre sat some 3,000 retail sellers of Dodge motor cars and Graham trucks. The quiet, alert one had bought out their company for $146,000,000 some time before (TIME, April 13). He was Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., the Manhattan banking house...
...queen, as Miss Columbia, and other Eureka dames assigned states according to social pedigree. But too many of the author's other ideas date from when they fought with spears, and he read about his characters in some book. He has been seen in better lights as versifier (The Quiet Singer, Manhattan, Beyond the Stars), as librettist and as sometime editor of The Designer, The Smart Set and McClure...