Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Communists raised a tumult, called the Chancellor a "tax robber" amid wild cheers, boos, growls. Under threat of police intervention they cooled. Quiet was restored...
...crowd. A Stahlhelmer fell dead. In a flash, both organizations were locked in painful, noisy, bitter conflict. Bashed-in noses, black eyes, shredded ears, large blue bruises were the wounds inflicted. The police, arriving speedily on the scene, added a number of cracked skulls to the casualty list. Quiet was eventually restored. The Republican Reichs banner leader gave himself up to the police...
...England Professional. At a quiet little affair on the Sandy Burr course (Wayland, Mass.), Herbert Lagerblade (Bristol, Conn.) became champion of the New England professionals with the modest score of 302 (72 holes). Tied for second: Jose Stein (Nashua, N. H.) and Jack Stait (Hartford, Conn.), 304 each...
...when Bismarck's iron mastiffs were seeking quiet kennels wherein to rest after their leap on France, Richard Wagner looked for a place to make a home for his old age. He chose Bayreuth-a village three hours by train from Nürnberg, visited by few tourists. With the help of Ludwig, King of Bavaria, he built his theatre-an enormous mousetrap to which the world soon began to beat a path. Nearby, he built his house...
...sometime King of Portugal was helped to a quiet corner. Sir Gerald Du Maurier stared from a bench, uttering little cries of admiration. Lord Beatty stood up near the pulpit and facing him, packed along wooden forms like rooks on a wire, were all the famed Art collectors, connoisseurs in England. They had come to Christie's auction rooms to bid for the odds and ends that John Singer Sargent left around his studio when he died (TIME, Apr. 27). The auctioneer turned suavely to the gentlemen on the forms, nodding at a raised finger that meant 200 guineas, catching...