Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Author Winkler's journalese is indistinguishable from the guarded patois written in Hearstpapers all over the U. S. In The First Billion he writes of Stanford White's "mortal death," burlesques Stillman, himself and the English language in the same breath: "Something about the repose, the quiet self-mastery of cows subdued the demon in his own breast. He passed hours photographing his placid animals...
...Georgia, CWA was put in charge of Miss Gay Shepperson, fortyish, professional social worker. This resulted from a thoroughgoing quarrel between blatant dictatorish Governor Talmadge and President Roosevelt's quiet stubborn CWAdministrator Hopkins. In the course of the quarrel, these words flew...
...McCormick's diamond necklace, a glittering plastron of 1,801 stones, 40 inches long ending in a sort of jointed breastplate of diamonds. Dealers, many of whom were unable to get in the room, shouted bids through the door, raising the price $250 at a time. A quiet, unassuming woman in galoshes who sat with her husband on a bench against the wall finally bid it in for $15,000. Said she: "It's beautiful. It all comes apart, you know, and makes lots of bracelets and brooches and things." Known to every Chicago gossip columnist...
Next day no one took much notice when a quiet, middle-aged woman arrived on the Europa, calmly saw her luggage through customs and sped out to the Steinway factory to choose her own pianos for a cross-country tour starting this week in Hartford. She was Myra Hess who does not go in for publicizing herself like most musicians. She does not assume that anyone is interested in the fact that she grew up in an orthodox Jewish home in London, started playing the piano when she was five, stuck to it because for her there seemed no other...
Loud whistling is especially penetrative in offices and class rooms where people are working and should have quiet. Not as a matter of dignity but out of consideration for others we should make it a point to control such exhibitions of inner emotion. These strong, silent Technology men! The Tech...