Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, at Paris, Premier Briand did his best to smooth matters over and quiet the press. Said...
...hear her sing. They clapped and clapped until Marion Talley had to give up being Gilda and bow many times, shy, awkward little bows as if she realized the time was not yet ripe for bowing. A few remembered they had come to hear her sing, hissed for quiet. "Mia Padre", she began, trying once more to be Gilda...
When gay dogs get together there is apt to be noise. Last week 2,261 of them got together in Madison Square Garden, and the occasion was not a quiet one. Yaps filled the air, woofs, yowls, basso bur-wurs and tender tenor barks. Dogs were benched in neat interminable rows, undergoing the attentions of their henchmen or staring with melancholy eyes upon the crowd. Bitches sulked in their wire boudoirs. It was the Golden Jubilee show of the Westminster Kennel Club...
Scarcely a college in the land but has its little son of Nippon, its quiet Chinaman, its bird-eyed Siamese or swarthy, ruminative Hindu. Scholarships bring to the U. S. hundreds of the best young brains of the Orient. But there have been no Iowa farmboys studying in Tokyo, no Boston freshman at Peking or Madras. The self-sufficient Occident has always assumed the teacher's role in its colleges at home, in its Christian missions abroad. Yet lately there have come missionaries to the Christians from the followers of Buddha, Confucius and Krishna. And last week another reciprocity...
Saturday. Well, we meet Lenglen tomorrow. We beat Miss Radcliffe and Stanley Doust today, 6-1, 7-5, and we were going some-our best so far. If we are still going tomorrow, Suzanne and her Baron better watch out. But anyhow I hope it will keep those reporters quiet for a while. You'd think I was a divorcee the way they follow me around...