Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because the renowned Pilsner beer industry of Czechoslovakia would profit hugely by a repeal of the U. S. Eighteenth Amendment, Zealot Maresch has long enjoyed complete toleration and some quiet encouragement by the shrewd burghers of Prague. Last week however public sentiment turned bitterly against him overnight, when he printed what was construed as an affront to the political idol of Czechoslovaks, famed Foreign Minister Eduard Benes. As everyone knows, Dr. Benes was the chief lieutenant of President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in their heroic and successful struggle to create the Czechoslovak State during the World...
...Henry Ford beamed with health & optimism, last week, as they landed at Manhattan, returning from England, where they recently took tea with Britain's King & Queen (TIME, April 23). Though Motor Man Ford wore a quiet blue suit when he landed, his exuberance was betrayed by a cravat of lavender and mottled green. Cried he: "I'm cocksure about the future of American business. . . . The Presidential election has nothing to do with it! ... Business will keep on being good through the summer and fall. . . . Yes, sir, I am cocksure about...
...Home Secretary was able to indicate that the situation in Rumania was completely quiet, last week, and that the 200,000 Rumanian peasants who marched to Alba Julia, last fortnight, and adopted resolutions protesting the despotism of the Rumanian Government were believed to be dispersing to their homes, after abandoning their project of a great protest march to Bucharest, Rumanian capital. ¶ Were astounded and chagrined by the charge made of His Majesty's Government that the oars now being used on lifeboats of the Royal Navy were purchased in the U. S. because prices there were lowest...
...present Mme. Pilsudska dwells principally at rural Sulejowek, 12 miles from Warsaw, where she provides a quiet soothing refuge to which her harassed and moody husband often flees. With her young daughters, Wanda and Hedwig, she assists the Marshal to prune his apple trees and tend his bees...
Bottled is not, as the title might imply, a noisy melodrama of ginthetic sin. Rather, it is a quiet and delicious little comedy about the descendants of a Kentucky distiller who have inherited his plant but who are unable to profit thereby because of the exigencies of the Volstead law and the severities of their progenitor's robust and thrifty widow. At last, after selling her their shares in the enterprise so that she may continue her proud traffic in bootleg, they go away from the old distillery on various romantic errands. Bottled was written by Anne Collins...