Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in London, the House of Commons was the scene of a quiet, determined fight upon the bill which was the source of Mr. Macdonald's vexation...
THIS study of George Eliot is only for those who are interested in the great Victorian novelist, and for those who are willing to lay aside their prejudice and be convinced, by a rational and quiet style, of her greatness. As Miss Haldane says in the last chapter, there is not one of the great Victorians who has suffered more from neglect since the war; the novels have not the satire of Thackeray's stories of London society, nor the luridness of Dickens tales of the slums; there is nothing but an unwavering view of the human heart...
Somehow or other, it is in his parodies of prominent literary figures that Mr. Benchley outdistances all competition. "The Henna Decade" in five parts, is one of the glories of the group. Part 4 in particular, should bring to even the estimable Mr. Beer a series of not too quiet chuckles. "Milt Gross stood talking with Ring Lardner and another on the steps of the American Indian Museum. He had under his arm a bulbous bundle and this dropped incontinently to the granite pedestal as he shrugged his shoulders. 'A peckage skelps,' he said. 'Heendian skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised...
...Loving Huntsman," is technically one of the most interesting authors now writing. Like Virginia Woolf, she never wastes a word. Each sentence is placed deftly, accurately; each paragraph is an exquisitely tooled bit. And like another woman writer, Willa Cather, she possesses a refreshing air of calm and quiet. When one reads her it is with a sense that the book is a treat; that it is of a rare vintage, not often obtainable...
...capable of many interpretations. There is his constant desire for the confirmation of reality: "He doubted his eyes, and had to feel things with his hands to know them." There is his constant desire for the unattainable tranquility that intellectual and physical isolation partly affords. Walking in the quiet hill-wood he meets a salamander, and this abrupt intrusion shatters the entity of stillness, and suddenly there is a alarming multiplication of yellow and black terrors. There is his constant desire for the compact miniature, a reality which shall be in his power to encompass, robbed of the hostility...