Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fertile wit. Buddha! What's the matter with Mahomet ? What's the matter with Confucius, to say nothing of Bab? And there is a sect called the Mormons, and there was Mrs. Eddy. What's the matter with any or all of these? Let's have a nice quiet lane in Central Park...
...When I was in Washington the last time, I called on the President; and I thought I ought to thank him, not only for his interest in the cathedral, but for his repeatedly expressed attitude on the subject of religion. And as I thanked this quiet, reserved man, his upper lip trembled, and he said: 'Mr. White, no nation has ever been able to endure, no nation will be able to endure, without religion...
...Dolly Madison were alive today," said Mrs. Colman, "she would have been classed as a flapper. . . . She was frivolous, used rouge, dipped snuff, and . . . played cards for high stakes. . . . Quite another sort of woman was Martha Washington, a quiet lady, gentle and demure...
...three o'clock, as twilight set tled over quiet Brussels, his hollow-cheeked, highbrowed, thin-haired head fell forward on his chest. He was dead...
...wiry little man, 64 years old, still indomitable in the face of physical or financial blows. He was lying abed last week in the Post Graduate Hospital, Manhattan, his scalp badly lacerated from a Florida train wreck early in the month. His physicians could not keep him quiet at home; ordered him to the hospital; permitted him to use the telephone. He learned that some of his pet stocks-among them Baldwin Locomotive, U. S. Cast Iron Pipe, and Independent Oil & Gas were being gnawed at on the Stock Exchange. To W. W. Murphy, his secretary, he quietly talked; ordered...