Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quiet and restful is the picture of Marblehead in Brewster's study of New England. The way he leads you on to expect one thing and then gives you another is the most amusing and distinguished bit of writing in the whole number...
...Rioseco that he come out and submit to arrest. They shouted that he had embezzled 3,000,000 pesos ($360,000). "Open the door in the name of the law! . . ." Within the bathroom the pistol spat lead. Six shots ripped through the door, made the soldiers quiet, wounded one. Then with his last shot, Señor Rioseco committed suicide, slumped down into the soapy water...
...conservative painting is that by Juan Oliver. In it are gentlewomen and gentlemen grouped about a grand piano in quiet poise. The men, oddly, wear clothes...
...house in Baltimore, a mature-looking woman with pale, patrician flesh above her square-cut bodice, with brows like ribbons over quiet, uninterested dark eyes, looks out from a wooden panel at the doings of Jacob Epstein. Mr. Epstein, once a peddler,* now a dry-goods millionaire, will admit to a few friends that the lady cost him $250,000-about $1,250 per square inch since the portrait is only 17 in. x 11⅜ in. Her name is Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, and to set his mind at rest as to whether or not she was painted...
...traditionally quiet atmosphere of international chess had been disturbed. One M. L. Lederer had accused Dr. Emanuel Lasker, German chess master, onetime world's champion, of employing unfair tactics for the purpose of impairing his opponents' powers to cerebrate. Specifically, Mr. Lederer had charged Dr. Lasker with 1) smoking cigars of semi-lethal composition during his matches, 2) exhaling fumes of same at strategic intervals and with unnecessary force,* 3) shouting superfluous orders at attendants, 4) being a nuisance intentionally...