Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Summering expansively at his home on Murray Bay, in Quebec, Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft was visited by a newsgatherer. Judicious, Mr. Chief Justice said: "Anything said regarding politics at this time would be given undue importance. So I just keep quiet...
...City, who sounded crass and flatulent on the vague topic of Republican Prosperity. And so it was at Houston with Keynoter Bowers, who combined pedantry with abuse on Republican Corruption. An editorial writer on the New York Evening World, Claude Gernade Bowers is a short, slim, dark, studious, scholarly, quiet man in his middle years. His specialty is early U. S. history. Like many a bookish man he has his villain-Alexander Hamilton-and his heroes-Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He gained fame as an exciting speaker last winter when Democrats celebrated Jackson Day in Washington. His assignment...
Chicken a la King. Now that summer has come, it is good to see Ford Sterling on the silver screen. He has a cool countenance and, at one point, he becomes covered with snow. In a quiet way he is funny. He plays a middle-aged married man named Horace Trundle who is shorn of his bankroll by two chorus girls in the accepted Gentlemen Prefer Blondes fashion. In the end, his wife, Erne (Carol Holloway), gets him back. The cast is capable: Nancy Carroll as one of the girls...
...talk. He began immediately to use the names of mysterious and exotic sicknesses-African Sleeping Sickness and how it had been cured by Bayer, malaria injections and how they helped general paralysis (TIME, April 2. June 4). For several minutes Professor Kappers stressed the past success of quiet cures wrought in maniacs and melancholies by somnifen injections over a period of 14 days. Somnifen produces a hypnotic sleep in which there is loss of consciousness, but no relaxation of reflexes. The patient can therefore be roused to take nourishment, attend to physical needs, etc., dropping off to sleep again...
...Delayed for two days because Mrs. Coolidge had been ill, the Coolidge Special rolled from Washington, D. C., to Superior, Wis. It was a quiet trip. The President made no back-platform speeches. He did not turn on the radio to listen to the G. O. P. convention...