Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Well informed observers opined that, while there is a bare chance of war, Turkey will in all probability be given sufficient commercial inducements to keep her quiet...
Well pleased at this rhetorical flourish, Lady Astor descended from the platform prepared to make her exit from the hall in quiet triumph. Instead, unemployed males surged about her car, demanding that she fulfill her pledge-valiantly attempting to call the Rt. Hon. Lady's bluff. Upon reaching home, the harassed Viscountess was "deluged with letters...
...that as it may, however, this fresh stirring of fundamentalism in Texas is a phenomenon of considerable significance. Since the conclusion of the famous Dayton episode, and the death of William Jennings Bryan, the fundamentalists have been unwontedly quiet. But signs are not lacking which indicate that this silence is by no means permanent. If Texas can produce another Scopes, and the nation another Bryan, the Lone Star State may well be the next battleground in a war which, it is not impossible, will be fought up and down the country. in politics and out, before it is concluded...
...stroke of apoplexy or a fit of angina pectoris is horrible to see, infinitely more horrible to pass through. The victim counts himself as captured by Death, thenceforth a tolerated thrall. A docility comes upon choleric, domineering men; an apathetic quietude rules their minds and bodies. They must be quiet, cease all activities, else they burst their heart or a blood vessel...
...have a nice, quiet lane in Central Park to be set apart for the figures of religious founders from Buddha to the Bab, and let the devotees of these masters meet in friendly disputation with the soon- to-be ex-Mayor Hylan as umpire or Comptroller Craig as alternate...