Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mitchell aerial in mind and speech; Morrow quiet spoken, judicial-minded. Even in so slight a matter as broken appointments they differ: Mitchell restrained from attending an American Legion Convention by orders to attend a Court Martial; Morrow sending his regrets to the American Bankers' Association ^ because he is too busy in Washington...
...sister, one Mrs. John Last, wife of a wealthy Milwaukee business man: "I have never approved of my sister's life ... I can see no reason now why she should be more to me than just a dead woman in Chicago Why should I, who have pride and quiet, claim her in this kind of death...
...show-off is so true to life, withal, that many of the show-offs in the audience have been known to remain quiet for several hours after the performance. But soon, with unconscious imitation of Mr. Bartels' manner, they all said, "That's all right, Mama, leave it to me, I'm the little fixer" or "Sign on the dotted line", or "Ha! Har! Haar...
...quiet old man, more given to work than talk. He never speaks in public, not even at such occasions as the dedication of a boulder bearing his name upon the site of his great beginnings (at Menlo Park, N. J.) ( TIME, May 25). So the guests at the annual dinner of the Old Time Telegraphers, held last week in Manhattan on the docked S. S. Olympic, were astonished and delighted to learn that he had consented to break his rule this once...
Nevertheless, those who have little interest in writing would find his course dull, for he exhibits nothing that is flashy, as a more objective and less lofty spirit would be prone to do. His humor is quiet, his satire gentle, yet they are all the more refined for being do. And not the least of the recommendations for his course is that Mr. Hersey is before all things courteous and innately gentlemanly...