Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leave the United States standing the whole loss. They can never see it that way! Their Government and their Peer-subsidized press has got them as hypnotized on that point as a basketful of baby rabbits under the eye of an Indian snake charmer. Let them keep quiet and pay what they owe- which is what they always pretend that they are doing. SITWELL R. PACKARD...
...usual frame of mind, remarking: "We have been checked, that is all." Not until the bulls he had red-flagged came snorting forth was the situation realized. In Prussia, heads come square and hard-so much the worse for Germany. Death of Baring. Sorely and righteously angry in his quiet, aristocratic way, John Baring, Baron Revelstoke, rode
...housing of the modern collection the facilities for the study and appreciation of poetry at Harvard receive a substantial strengthening. A start has been made in the right direction, for of all forms of literature poetry most of all forms of literature poetry most of all requires comfortable and quiet surroundings for its appreciation. The hurly burly of the main Widener reading room with its scraping chairs and hoarse whispers or the deadening fastness of the stacks are equally inappropriate for the sort of pleasure to be found in the reading of verse...
...Senate, Vice President Curtis banged his gavel until the muttering chamber was as quiet as a schoolroom, before he would permit Chaplain E. Barney Thorne Phillips to pray. The President's call was read, four Senators were sworn in. Ohio's Burton delivered a long, moving eulogy of the late ambassador to France, Myron Timothy Herrick. Then Indiana's Watson, now officially the majority leader, uncrossed his legs, swung himself out of his seat, moved adjournment, thus postponing commencement of the Senate's work until another...
Central figures in I. P. & P. are two: Malcolm Greene Chace-a quiet man of mystery-millions, a man so quiet his name is not on his office door or in Who's Who. For years he was a dominant stockholder in International Paper and New England Power. When he obtained control of the former, combinations began. He kept in the background. Seldom has his name appeared in print except, during the 90's, in the sport news. He used to be an able tennis racqueteer. His background is Quaker, and old New English. His father, Arnold Buffum...