Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capital's Christmas tree. Soon after, the Washington throngs trooped into the White House grounds to sing Christmas carols around the lighted porte-cochère. President & Mrs. Coolidge, John Coolidge and a choir sent by the Interstate Commerce Commission, led the caroling . . . Christmas at the White House was quiet, with only one guest for dinner, Attorney General Sargent...
Through the quiet air of central Ohio, a Presidential salute banged out last week, followed by the long-drawn bugle notes of "Taps". Citizens of Marion, Ohio, stood with bared heads around a $500,000 marble tomb, "Marion's beauty spot and Ohio's shrine." They were reburying their fellow-townsman, Warren Gamaliel Harding and Florence Kling Harding, his wife...
...Senator entered and soon shook hands with the most important-looking one. Swart Curtis of Kansas is most important because, from his quiet aisle seat in the back row, he leads the majority party. Most-important-looking, a veritable redundancy in statesman-hood with his elephantine frame, florid face and canary waistcoat, is Alabama's Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope...
...decided to be a professional chess player. To him the game was less a tiny, quiet and concentrated war than an argument in which ideas could be expressed more precisely than the words. The vocabulary of 16 pieces was to him a language capable of the finest rythms, the most terrible and subtle inflections. The sly digressions of a slanting bishop, the rapid cynicisms of a threatened queen, the stormy contraditions of the agile castles?these provided dialect in which the finest abstractions could be stated. By 1921, when he had not lost a game for seven years, Capablanca...
After the Dowager Queen came Princess Helene.? Quiet and considerate, she gazed with pity at M. Bratiano for some moments, then withdrew without uttering a word...