Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That evening, Jean Paul Baptiste Yvonne Fippany, the chicken-wagon man, had surrendered to portly, black-eyed Mrs. Fippany about going to a town to live. She had long hinted at it (in a quiet voice, sweet as distant bells) and finally, just before supper, openly rebelled. It was because of the child, Addie, of course, not Mrs. Fippany's health at all. And Mr. Fippany surrendered by telling Breaksteel, the beagle puppy, they would give up trading tin pans and cups and gaudy Bibles and lithographs and pain-killers and perfumed hair-kink removers for chickens and eggs...
...Prince said that the Spanish maidens were not as amorous as commonly described, but really very quiet-loving...
Direction that was so obvious that it seemed at times burlesque blurred the virtues of the work. Fervent overacting also detracted. Ruth Nugent, quiet, direct, sometimes a little wistful amid the sub-Babbitt racket, mattered markedly. Altogether the piece is a doubtful value, and yet the first entertainment of the season for adult consideration...
...Queen that evening. Shortly before the curtain rang up, their Majesties, accompanied by an ample suite, entered the theatre, occupied three left-hand boxes. They stayed to the end of the performance* joined in the ovation given to Miss Lucille Laverne, who played the leading role, made a quiet exit as the audience was kept at attention by the national anthem...
Accordingly, there is a quiet optimism present in the copper industry that has long been lacking. Thus far copper shares have not shown any great advance, and they have too often disappointed Wall Street to be readily taken up by the speculating public. Yet from the standpoint of statistics the copper industry's future appears brighter than it has for many years...