Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stood That day you finished it so long ago And looked upon your work and called it good. I know that others find you in the light That's sifted down through tinted window panes, And yet I seem to feel you near tonight In this dim, quiet starlight of the plains. I thank you, Lord, that I am placed so well, That you have made my freedom so complete ; That I'm no slave of whistle, clock or bell, Nor weak-eyed prisoner of wall and street. . . . Let me be easy on the man that...
...majesty, Ahmed Fuad I, King of Egypt, was returning home last week from his state visit at London to the King and Emperor George V (TiME, July 18). King Fuad's route lay from Paris, where he had spent several quiet days, to Rome where he was feted last week by King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Benito Mussolini...
...curious public breathed more easily. Ah, yes, to be sure, what a fitting transition; from the pinnacle of U. S. aspiration to a position of cloistered distinction, where Mr. Coolidge could round out his days impressing lofty tradition upon malleable youth by quiet example. No voice from Amherst spoke out to deny or affirm the Times' hint. President Coolidge of Amherst College seemed a development as likely as it was fitting...
William Randolph Hearst is called an attractive man. His is a great, tall, 2201b. figure with long arms and big hands. His eyes are bluish grey, and it is said, not very kind. He is quiet, almost bashful, and possesses quantities of that illusive thing called personality...
...Author. Short, slim, quiet, Dillwyn Parrish lives in Claymont, Del., the young bachelor master of an old homestead, exchanging visits often with the sister whose bookishness revived his interest in life after a bad time...