Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet and her hair starts from her head and goes out like the Japanese rising sun. The same color, too. I don't do anything, I just stand there and look. If she'd had on glasses I'd have hollered. And then I slunk out quiet-like...
With wall coverings of quiet color and a restful lighting a more natural setting than that of the usual museum gallery has been achieved. Most important of all, however, is the fact that the arrangement, and at times the choice, of the exhibits has been planned not so much for study as for enjoyment. Such principles are all in line with recent tendencies in the presentation of paintings or of decorative subjects, but their application to a long-established classical collection in something of a departure...
...returned to his office, wrote that President Hill "looks more like a circus barker than a millionaire." Next day distraught citizens had visions of angry President Hill building no more warehouses in Durham, perhaps even moving American Tobacco operations to friendlier cities. President Hill, noted for his penchant for quiet dress, bow ties, wearing his hat in his office, was quick to take his revenge. He sent Publisher Council and other bigwigs of Durham ("The Friendly City") copies of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, inscribed in each: "With the compliments of George W. Hill...
Cool on the banks of piney Lake Mendota rests the quiet city of Madison, centre of a rich dairy and farming area, home of Wisconsin's State capitol and State university. Last week, though no petroleum has ever been found there, Madison became also the temporary capital of the U. S. oil industry. In the biggest trust-busting case since the famed dissolution of Standard Oil, the Federal Government last week brought to trial in Madison 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, three oil trade journals and 57 ranking oilmen.* Under the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...Hemingway stories, has not yet come to finish Ernest Hemingway's. At 39, in life's prime, he has chosen to be in the midst of death. Madrid, whence last fortnight he cabled a first dispatch to the N. Y. Times, was what he described as quiet; but a shell hit the hotel where he was shaving one morning. Whether his remaining chapters are to reach a further climax, are to be torn off unfinished or peter out in a dull decline, time alone can tell. But no matter what is to happen to Hemingway, U. S. readers...