Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...counties in this country and I can tell you the people have the idea that their capital city belongs to them and not to the proprietors of movie theatres and baseball parks. The Christian people of this country demand protection of their right to one day of quiet to carry on their forms of worship. They demand protection against people who have no regard for decency or the laws of God or man. . . . And as to the Rotary clubs and the Kiwanis and Lions and Elks that you say are against this bill?well, I've spoken before...
...reporter in the small hours of the morning. "He was captain in my Sophomore year and was a great man to get along with. He knows a lot about modern football tactics because he and Ralph have been closely connected with the game since they left college. He is quiet, and the kind of man who goes ahead and does something without making a lot of talk about it. He is the type that is a great example to those under him and I'm certain will turn out to be a most inspiring coach...
Last week there was a strange and exciting scene in the quiet hamlet of Middleboro, Mass. Snorting, kicking, bunting, bugling, a herd of over 400 wild elk entered town. There were other elk in the vicinity and these the newcomers soon joined. They had traveled across the continent, all the way from Moiese, Mont. (Flathead Indian Reservation), in 70 hours, riding in specially constructed, electrically lighted express cars. Their total carfare amounted to $14,000. Everyone of the bulls had been dehorned before being shown to his stall, for the comfort of his fellow passengers and the conductors...
Second only to moose in size, elk thrive on less food than any other deer. They are the hardiest deer, are immune to hoof and mouth disease, Texas fever, lumpy jaw and black tongue. They have "a quiet and contented nature." They dress heavier than any other meat animal. Their meat is considered by many an epicure superior to any meat on the market. It is virtually non-existent commercially, brings $1.50 a lb., and New York City alone would have consumed 3,000 elk carcasses last autumn had they been available. Laboratory tests show that elk flesh...
Years ago, when national advertising was toddling and stumbling over itself and when Henry John Heinz (founder) was still alive, the company had decided on a quiet, pervasive, yet persuasive, type of propaganda. Heinz' 57 Varieties became its slogan and was so skillfully broadcast that the mere numerals 57 on a billboard told a story, sold the goods. This policy of effectiveness without flamboyancy grew from the very character of Henry John Heinz, continues in that of his son Howard, now company president...