Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ought to see him shinin' up to it in his quiet way when he thinks nobody is lookin'. He's afeared it won't grow fast enough and he's always feedin...
...After testimony for the plaintiff was complete Miss Owen caused a sensation by suddenly withdrawing all her charges, allegedly as the result of a quiet settlement out of court by agents of Lord Rothermere...
...statement given out at the Lampoon building yesterday, President J. O. Whedon '27, declared: "There is absolutely no truth in the story which appeared in the CRIMSON this morning. It is true that a party was held, but it was a quiet affair with no morons present. The Lampoon resents the implied slur on the reputation of the innocent turkey, who did no more than to lose her head. Incidently, a good time...
...frankly his criticisms, speaks of the things he does not like, and cites himself as an example of the kindness of a great administrator who was not too busy to interest himself in the financial worries of an individual student. Rollo Brown, in the curent Harper's, paints a quiet personal portrait of the Olympian, finds him to have been "a very wise man, a very good man." And in an earlier number of the same magazine, Edward Martin from the editor's easy chair takes stock of the personal qualities of the great educator: "A splendid man; tolerant, generous...
Death came quietly to President Eliot in the sea-washed rugged hills of Mt. Desert Island. There was no blaring of trumpets, no dramatics, only the calm courage which had characterized his life. A few days before the end he startled his nurse with the quiet remark that he would not live out the week. Once or twice the old urge to be up and doing came upon him, but in the main he lay quietly waiting...