Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with hip boots and a fishin pole, and carrying a can of real bait--garden-worms of the common squirming variety--the Chief Executive descends on a stream in the Adriondacks or the Black Hills, and fills the Presidential breakfast table each day with the products of his own quiet skill in sport...
...give a considerable sum to go out and rumble for a little while now. It has manifold attributes among which is overemphasis, and its only drawback, so far as we can see, is the possibility of a long cool walk to Cambridge. But tonight, instead of rumbling along, starting quiet towns, we are staying in and rumbling typewriter keys. And, as some one has said, it isn't the heat, it's the humility...
Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter and only child of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, New York Evening Post, etc.) and wife of Edward W. Bok (onetime editor Ladies' Home Journal), last week permitted her name to come out of quiet domestic retirement in two announcements. To the Curtis Institute of Music which Mrs. Bok founded in Philadelphia three years ago with $500,000, she had given seven millions, bringing its endowment to $12,500,000. As President of the Institute, she had promoted the head of the piano department to the head...
There have been some, more captious than loyal, who have wished that the Cambridge river more resembled the ideal conception of the Isis and the Cam a lazy, rural stream, from whose lush banks only the flight of rooks above a grey-thatched cottage disturbs the quiet beauty of the English countryside. It must be admitted that trip in a wherry or a single, reveals a scene dissimilar to this. "The boatsman is seldom out of sight, during the lower half, of his journey, of apartment houses and the stadium: and lest the forget that he is still in urban...
...Woolf is the youngest daughter of the late Sir Leslie Stephen. She married Leonard Sidney Woolf, literary Editor of the Nation and Athenaeum, in 1912. They live at Hogarth House, an old place in Richmond, spending their quiet time alike at gardening and fine writing and printing...