Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They stood in the hallway of the bishop of their diocese-young Jack and Bernardone and the bishop. At their feet was a parcel of rich woven-stuffs, linen and cloth of gold, a silver altar cloth, a sword-belt. The bishop, brown and quiet, was explaining something, half-humorously, to Pietro Bernardone; the merchant seemed too angry to hear him. Had he ever denied his son anything? Why, Jack's friends called him Francis because of his rich ways. And now to turn thief. If Jack had asked he would have given him that bundle of gewgaws...
...Georges Pierre, 55, racked with pain on an adjoining bed, found himself unable to sleep, thought to silence M. Clet's groans and snores by whaling him with a stout leather belt. The ruse succeeded. Quiet soon reigned. M. Pierre slept...
Questioned as to the present religious situation in Russia, the speaker said that a person professing religion of any sort is ineligible for the Communst party. "However," he went on, "the churches hold well attended services and it was my impression that many Communists go to church on the quiet:" He remarked that the Lenin-cult may well be taking the place of a religion with many of the peasantry, describing the processions of peasants that file through the Lenin mausoleum at Moscow to look at the embalmed body of the Soviet leader...
...after midnight when King Alfonso, enjoying a quiet game of bridge in the Miramar Palace at San Sebastian, was called to the telephone by an urgent summons from Premier de Rivera, who explained that twelve regiments of artillery were in mutiny and that the King's presence in Madrid was imperative...
...kept on using quiet expletives, more out of decency, it seemed, than real surprise. Captain MacMillan, with the good ship Bowdoin safe in winter anchorage, had brought him down to show him civilization, and Abie Bromfield, "Eskimo" (whose parents were English) felt a certain responsibility to his host. They had talked together by arctic firesides and Captain MacMillan had told him of these big houses, and of sleds that ran around on wheels without any dogs, and of yellow stars made put of glass and stuck like icicles in every corner; the Captain's descriptions, indeed, had been enthusiastic...