Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since begotten from the same wife 11 children, of whom two are priests, two nuns. Frau Leopoldine Miklas lives most of the time in a four-roomed house at Horn, one and a half hours from Vienna by rail, with the President's five youngest sons. Through a quiet life of 56 years he has risen slowly from obscure school teaching to be rector of a little college, then Speaker. Unashamed of poverty, he claims to have worn every day since 1924 the same now threadbare morning coat, striped trousers, soft felt hat. A meek man, President Miklas...
Each year Dr. Cumming, who has been in the Public Health Service for more than 30 years and its surgeon general since Woodrow Wilson appointed him so in 1920, calls the health officers of all the states to a conference. Most of them attend and from his quiet, pointed talks get stamina to suppress disease within their districts. But six or seven states are so careless of their epidemiological work that their statistics are rarely considered in Dr. Cumming's survey of the nation's health. In the two score and more who habitually report, last year there...
Vested in stole and surplice, Rector Randolph Ray stepped from the quiet of his sacristy into the flower-decorated chancel at the Little Church Around the Corner* last week, to preside at the unveiling of the fifth stained glass window there in memory of famed actors. This time it was to commemorate John Drew,† whose mother had a pew at the Church before...
...costs $1.25 for a "trial membership". The theatre is at 36 Joy Street, where one enters through a bookshop. During quiet moments of the play you can hear the footsteps and words of people walking down muddy Beacon Hill. Probably it is a synthetic Bohemia, but it will...
Like most innocent and hence significant humorists of the printed page, Frank Sullivan makes no blatant wisecracks in public places. He is an amazingly quiet Irishman, just short of plump. His occasional spoken words make sense and everybody likes...