Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations. Dr. Kanner insists that every cause which disturbs the child emotionally should be removed?family quarreling, fear of a drunken father, a whining mother, oppressive brothers and sisters. Often peaceful, regular life in a boarding school or summer camp will cure such children...
...quiet the hopefully palpitating hearts of a multitude of U. S. Negroes, the President last week named a Minister to Liberia, which his State Department recently recognized (TIME, June 24). His choice: Lester A. Walton, 54, newshawk of his father-in-law's New York Age, formerly writer for the defunct New York World. He visited Monrovia two years ago, was presented with a leopard skin by Liberia's President Barclay, attended sessions of the International Liberian Com-mission at Geneva. Clean shaven, bald, a modest family man, he will now return to Liberia taking his wife...
...Prefect Chiappe was charged with allowing Royalists and Fascists to riot their heads off, smashing Communist and Socialist demonstrations ruthlessly. Socialists asked and got the head of Prefect Chiappe as the price of their support of the luckless Daladier government. Prefect Chiappe was forced to resign. To keep him quiet Premier Daladier reached deep into his plum bag for one of the juiciest of all French administrative posts-the Governorship of Morocco. Still gambling on his popularity in Paris, Jean Chiappe turned the offer down...
...Depression," explained Inventor Merkl. "Nothing to do. I swear I make a trap to catch anything. First I figure and figure. Then I improve and improve. All 100% humane traps. No one gets hurt. The animals, they like it. They sit there inside, nice and quiet, and look out. Only the coon, he woof at you when you come. They go in my traps. I guarantee...
...Author, Born 42 years ago in New Rochelle, of old U. S. stock somewhat similar to that traced in American Family, Author Baldwin began to write at the age of six, when she turned out a play characteristically called The Deserted Wife. Neighbors in the quiet Fort Hamilton district of Brooklyn knew her as the wife of a Brooklyn businessman, the mother of three sons and a daughter, unobtrusively active in Brooklyn Junior League affairs, when the sensational success of Alimony in 1928 suddenly lifted her from the status of routine magazine contributor to that of a popular favorite...