Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Four thousand pounds," said a quiet, mellow voice, the voice of His Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III. At once the buzz of Christie's quieted. The Aga Khan had recently offered ?100,000 ($486,000) for Solario, famed racehorse (TIME, June 21). He could bid up to almost any sum for the diamond "Golden Dawn" if he really wanted it. Perhaps a record in diamond bidding loomed...
...keeps the Red bogey of Bolshevism dangling horrifically before English eyes. By owning some ?400,000 worth of strategically placed shares, he controls ?24,000,000 worth of newspaper enterprises. With the only man who might become his rival, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, he has a quiet gentlemanly agreement whereby they jointly own, but Baron Beaverbrook controls, the Daily Express and Evening Standard. Third of the London news titans whose newspapers are really national is Sir William Berry, who controls the Daily Graphic (Independent) and dabbles much in provincial newspapers...
...locomotives and my job is to build them.' There was another rumor of a stock market corner in Baldwin. I laughed; 'The only corners I know of in Baldwin are the four corners on every Baldwin stock certificate.' I was wrong, for Arthur W. Cutten, quiet calculator in Chicago, had built a corner in Baldwin. Newspapers reputed his profits...
Earl Carroll: "I sailed last week for Manhattan from England, where I have just been enjoying a quiet holiday before my forthcoming Manhattan retrial for perjury (TIME, May 31) in connection with a party, at which one of my chorus girls emerged naked from a bath of champagne. Dining in London with a dramatic critic, I remarked: 'I find that in America leg shows bring cultured people all around me. In fact. I might be a prizefighter.' 'Then you would be popular over here,' said he. 1 replied: 'I might even be made Knight...
...several weeks the Dramatic Club has been rehearsing its coming adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's "The Love of the Three Oranges" in the Barn around on Church Street. Barely ten days remain before the opening performance, and quiet rehearsals are essential...