Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard" the public alse over so gently implied. And Mr. Ford replies with better lines, quiet, more power, more speed, in a still veiled Juggernaut of a motor millenium that can butcher pedestrians to make a Sudbury holiday, and buy the antiques of a more restful past. A Detroit Isis is born again with renewed vigor in the American pageant. They used to laugh at the car that now is dead. "But there is no death. There is only laughter," said Mr. O'Neil's Lazarus...
Except for a tornado, Washington was quiet last week and so were the President's days & nights...
...Lowden's 1928 boom has been a muffled one, as was his 1920 boom. Now as then his friends have been working with quiet skill assembling delegates while he holds back in dignified semi-detachment. In 1920, Mr. Lowden was a Business Man; now he is the Farmer's Friend, for reasons which it is hoped will also persuade Business...
Undaunted by Mayor Thompson's unfriendliness, the Lowden boom continued. While Mr. Lowden spent another quiet week at Sinnissippi, rounded off by a trip to Evanston to see the Northwestern University drub Iowa 12 to 0,* his name was formally entered for the Indiana primaries and his manager, State Senator Clarence F. Buck, reached Washington, D.C., full of confidence after a tour of the Midwest. Mr. Buck denied that Mayor Thompson would be actively unfriendly. Mr. Buck said that the industrial East was "lining up" behind Mr. Lowden. Literature to accelerate this "lining up" was issued, setting forth...
President Hurie looked out his office window. Clarksville, he thought, a quiet town . . . trees, lawns, Missouri Pacific depot, county court house . . . not like New York, very poor, every body . . . last spring's rains and floods, top soil washed away, cotton crop a failure, last year's cotton sold for only a few cents a pound. No money in Clarksville. I have $3,000 in the bank . . . savings of 15 years teaching . . . 1912, graduated Union Theological Seminary, preached in some New York churches. Perhaps, can raise the $115,000 there...