Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian sky is very large and under it some of the queerest things in history have happened. One of them happened last week. Leon Trotzky, ne Bronstein, former War Lord of Russia, arrived in Moscow. His entrance was as quiet as was his exit last January (TIME, Jan. 26). There were no bands, no cheering people, no officials?the Kremlin was cold to his return. At the same time, Grigori Zinoviev, Chairman of the Third (Communist) Internationale, nicknamed "the bomb-boy of Bolshevism," left Moscow for the Caucasus, allegedly for his health...
...seems, he was immediately successful. The club took on new life, and the concerts became not only dull things for loyal Harvard alumni to attend but musically important as well. Moreover, other glee clubs began to follow suit, until the old order seems in a fair way to a quiet demise. Glancing through the program, one notes one or two numbers that were composed especially for the club. It seems not too much to hope, therefore, that Dr. Davison's renaissance of serious music may lead to new compositions as well, to a new American literature for chorus...
...Copley players will attend and several other well known actors and actresses are also expected to be present. Tickets may be obtained today in the Standish Hall Common Room from 6.30 to 7 o'clock and from 12 to 2 and 5 to 6 o'clock in the Quiet Room of the Union. A few tickets will also be sold at the door tomorrow, but the Theatregoers Club has advised all those members of the University who plan to attend to obtain their tickets today...
...Italians, Premier, Mussolini may seem a little ill-at-ease in his new role of champion of peace and quiet, but the native sons realize that it is another proof of his profoundly sympathetic nature. When a proposal was made recently to motorize the gondolas of Venice, Mussolini said nothing, but when little Mariapia Cafagna of New York presented him with a petition of her own composition, signed by four hundred Americans, the superlative "human-interest" side of the thing pierced through his gruff exterior, and touched the great although little-known heart...
Without stopping to cancel the contracts for motorizing the gondolas, chiefly because none had been made, Mussolini hastened to assure his juvenile petitioner that nothing could persuade him to "destroy the peace and quiet which forms one of the chief charms of this wonderful city...