Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court, although in several ways it was historic. The fact that none of the seats in the court room are reserved for privileged persons, such as diplomats and friends of the members, helps to quell the itch to get in. And then the members live such quiet lives...
When Mitchell came before the Board in Washington last week there was little direct contact between the quiet little man sitting at the head of the table absorbing facts and the air officer militant. Only at a point when Colonel Mitchell was about to read a statement did they really touch. Chairman Morrow gave him brief advice, ending with an abrupt injunction: "The Board must, of course, assume that this special part of your testimony has been prepared by you because you believe the facts set forth therein indicate the need of certain changes in organization which in your opinion...
...intention of not assuming any obligations under the League which might lead to Allied troops being mobilized across Germany to attack Russia; and that Germany would evade any Allied desire to impose such obligations upon her at Locarno, if she could. Meanwhile would not Minister Tchitcherin please be quiet, and accept for his country a 100 million gold mark credit which the Reich Cabinet had just rushed through in the form of a Russo-German trade treaty...
That had been an experience more searching and fundamental than loving a woman, siring children or writing histories. The boy was an orphan who had grown up, big-boned, quiet, and self-reliant, in New Mexico. He had learned Latin from a Belgian priest, life from railroad men. He told St. Peter about a prehistoric city of the cliff-dwellers that he had discovered, perfectly preserved in the high, dry atmosphere of an inaccessible mesa. He had explored the place thoroughly and gone to Washington, where he was received with scant courtesy and less attention by the Government...
...university. From the Leader, she went to creative Writing, helped edit McClure's Magazine from 1906-12. She did not marry, but her literary offspring appeared at regular intervals, each more admirable than the last, until One of Ours took the 1922 Pulitzer Prize. In her quiet New York apartment she is not a striking figure but rather detached, casual to the outward expressions of existence, calmly occupied with the deliberate achievement of perfection. She says she had accumulated sufficient material for a lifetime of writing by the age of 20, but that would not include years spent...