Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pullman cars. Cordell Hull, onetime Democratic National Chairman, Rhea County's representative in Congress, was requested to beg a village of tents from the War Department. In the court house, radio broadcasting apparatus was set up, with loud speakers out on the lawn and Instructor Scopes, ordinarily a quiet and reasonable young man, declared that he was "ready to fight and, if need be, to die" for a right whose national champion he never expected...
...common characteristic. There is the club member who belongs to some socially prominent Boston, New York, or possibly Chicago family, and who continues to be damnably social for four years. And there is the high-school graduate who majors in Latin and spends most of his time in a quiet nook in the huge library. The socially correct element is the remnant of that Boston society of the last century that "sneezed whenever England took cold," although nowadays it is difficult to distinguish between the imitation and the real. The studious element speaks Americanese, is not ashamed of its local...
...quiet and dignified announcement of the forthcoming Silver Bay conference is one which does great credit to the Phillips Brooks House. The fanfare with which the campaign for delegates is being carried on in many colleges, and has been carried on at Harvard in other years, seems quite out of keeping with the professed spirit of the conference...
...much alone in a strange land, this must have seemed like a singularly unsportsmanlike proceeding. First to be reprimanded for every scheduled race in which sickness kept him from competing, and then to have his travelling accounts ransacked for petty graft must have been insufferable treatment even for the quiet and undemonstrative Nurmi...
Several dark forms moved near a chapel in Washington, D. C. Others joined them, vanished within the edifice. Came more dark forms, loitering, hurrying, in quiet pairs, in loud-talking squads. All passed into the edifice. Two hours later, the chapel opened, the dark forms poured forth an impromptu parade. Song burst out, punctuated with shouts, as the paraders marched. Placards were hoisted aloft, reading: "What is this going to be- an army or a university?"; "Before we will be slaves we will be in graves"; "Don't be an Uncle...