Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There the Emperor Napoleon sent the Empress Josephine to pass a quiet spell. Later her very room was occupied by M. Paul Deschanel, who grew slightly demented after he had been President of France (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926)." When great M. ReneéViviani came to the U. S. as High Commissioner with Marshall Joffre in 1915, few surmised that this onetime Prime Minister of France would soon be immured at Malmaison. Last week however all France knew-and laughed in the knowledge-that M. Le Senateur Louis Klotz, onetime Finance Minister in the Clemenceau War Cabinet...
...York World, down the long rows of worn old desks. A big, vociferous typhoon with red hair, blue shirt, trim tailored suit, swept with a round-the-world stride through the office, greeted a dozen reporters by their first names and vanished through a far door, leaving a strange quiet 'behind him. Herbert Bayard Swope, Executive Editor of the World and genius of its flying columns for eight years, was leaving...
...upon the stage. But she somehow progressed from entertaining her friends with mimicries to playing to paying houses. She has never played to an audience that disliked her; and she has played in the six or seven languages which she speaks. She detests publicity and does not, in her quiet demeanor, display traces of the exhibitionism which inspires all acting. She writes her own monologues...
Leonora Canwick enlists in the A. E. F. and get quite a bit older while she is trying to keep from the inquisitive people she meets the fact of her sex. The subject admits of any number of subtleties most of which are driven home with that quiet nicety of steam riveters working opposite your window early in the morning...
...ever chosen for the seat of a university. While Oxford cannot boast of the yellow, strangling fogs which infest London and turn her days into hideous night, she can offer a specimen of a sort no less disagreeable to newcomers. For a few hours at least during these quiet winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars' Hill, and Shot-over. The dome of the Radcliffe Camera, the spires and towers of St. Mary the Virgin's, Magdalen, Merton, and the Cathedral are lost...