Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep quiet!" ordered Referee Cohalan...
...away from it all and the boy nearly succeeds in killing the lover. Miss Sheridan admirably performs the difficult task of keeping the family from going completely berserk and also guiding the mother and her lover away from the house and off to South America so that peace and quiet may return to the household...
...kept most White House newshawks fluttering happily in the benevolent aura of his smile, if not actually feeding out of his hand. And through these contented correspondents he has kept most editors and editorial writers back in the home offices in conditions varying from hoarse enthusiasm to quiet neutrality...
...henhouse in the quiet Ozark village of Couch, Mo. (pop. 59) last week, Mrs. Henry Bennett found an egg imprinted with the phrase: "Here my word 35." Viewing this as a religious portent, Mrs. Bennett told her neighbors about it. A wave of excited piety overtook Couch. To Mrs. Bennett's home went visitor after visitor, to emit fervent prayers. When, in a fit of devout jitters, a female preacher dropped the egg and broke it, Mrs. Bennett succeeded in gluing enough pieces on another egg so that the words were still visible. Said Mrs. Bennett...
...some shock. Then I said to myself, 'Be quiet-you are simply going through a minor experience.' Then it was all over. I could see, hear, breathe, feel and walk just as before...