Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Clark Hoover kept quiet as a turtle and let friends explain in his behalf the fact, dug up by busy nobodies, that he and Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover, both Quakers, were married by a Catholic priest. The occasion, in 1899, required haste because Mr. Hoover had to sail from California next day for China. The Rev. Raymon Maria Mestries, Monterey mission priest, was no gladder than they that he had a dispensation to marry Protes- tants...
...American Thought" by V. L. Parrington, reviewed by Stanley Williams: "A New Englander in Japan: Dauiel Crosby Greene," by E. B. Greene, reviewed by E. A. Christie: "The Rise of American Civilization," by C. A. Beard and Marry R. Beard reviewed by S. E. Morison: "The Harvest of a Quiet Life," by Odell Shepard, reviewed by Lawrence Mayo...
...that greatest pleasure, at times like this, is found not in the congratulations of the world beyond the campus, but rather in the quiet satisfaction of the college itself. Noisely the student grinds his axe each day in the mail column, but on the fiftieth anniversary his appreciation comes, no less sincere because student reticence on such occasions makes men like Dean Warren his spokesman: "News editorials, communications, and other features--they are entertaining, instructive, sometimes a bit irritating, but how we should miss them if they were to stop...
...walking together toward a city. At the centre of these pictures is the boy who stood in the temple; the face that was filled that day with exaltation has now become more sorrowful, more wise. For three years, through sandy eastern countries, he moves in a golden path of quiet and beautiful happenings. The people who live in small villages have heard about a man who is the son of God; lepers, in fields and ditches, stare at ragged hands that have been made smooth. There are three more scenes at the end of the three years...
...would seem to have been avoided. Fears that all Harvard would migrate to more agreeable climes have been pretty well blasted by the crowded condition of the Library and the very normal term-time appearance of the Square; Boston hostesses and Yard cops will testify that things have been "quiet" in a social way; and the bootleggers have been heard to complain of the lack of conviviality registered at the University...