Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will be no need on Thursday for the parting adjuration that Harvard Yard must be silent this night. The Yard will be quiet, but not in order that the squad may mend with sleep the experience of being commanded by two thousand men, haute voix, to perform a personal obligation. Under the new arrangement Harvard men who want to cheer their team before it meets Yale can still do so. The cheering will not, however, be done for a team at that moment striving to look dogged and breathe smoke. It will be done for a team that...
...mind of an individual it ought to have. Art theatres and experimental playhouses the nation over can only envy the financial resources that makes its existence possible and contemplate the splendid uses to which they could put an equal amount of money. Theatre goers in general may applaud the quiet determination of the first unsuccessful angel who has not burdened the public with a frustrated squealing about an unappreciated mission. And there is still opportunity for Boston, a city that celebrates Armistice Day by parades: to support the reign of paradox and give the "Ladder" a profitable...
...quiet little conversation, apparently the talk of two close friends. They had come out of the White House, gotten into step with each other and walked down the lawn, where Mr. President had halted, turned and with a sweep of his arm indicated what a really fine place to live the White House...
...Thomas Garrigue Masaryk was not idly boasting, last week, when he said to a U. S. correspondent on the tenth birthday of Czechoslovakia: "I wish it were possible for me to take a quiet evening stroll past our new statue of President Wilson [in Prague]. They tell me it looks splendid under the floodlights at night. But alas I am always recognized and overwhelmed with public adulation...
Fortunately for the peace of mind of George V, these evolutionary if not revolutionary sentiments do not yet represent the overt policy of Sir Richard Squires, victor in last week's contest. This quiet, sharp-featured businessman affects collars with rounded ("Hoover") points, spectacles, and a reassuring air of being no revolutionary...