Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiet, routine, rather lonely week for President Coolidge. Mrs. Coolidge was recovering from a cold-nothing serious, but the lumbago that went with it made her feel like not going anywhere. The President went to a dinner given by Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work in the Pan-American Union building-the first dinner "out" (except for stag affairs) that he had attended without his wife since going to Washington as Vice President in 1921. Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. were there, among several dozen others. Mrs. Rockefeller fancies Japanese art, about which the President knows little. For entertainment...
...whose privilege and duty it was to notify Candidate Willis how Cleveland felt, was not throaty Col. Thompson. It was a quiet, bald, astute, elderly person named Maurice Maschke, who for years, in his panelled study on the heights near Cleveland, has manipulated the clumsy fellows down in the city who call themselves politicians. Mr. Maschke is Ohio's National Republican Committeeman. When he wants to see the seeker or holder of an office, he is not above paying a call downtown, downstate or even down in Washington. In 1908, when Theodore E. Burton (now a Representative) was unexpectedly...
...stormy Walsh for a Senate investigation into the financial and political practices of the "power trust" (TIME, Feb. 13) was reported favorably to the Senate, anxious looks passed among the Democrats. "There is more than one way in which power can be abused," said these looks. Georgia's quiet George offered an amendment to his colleague's resolution, shifting the investigation from the Senate's hands to the Federal Trade Commission...
...recommendation that student government there be abolished. The Committee of Seven of Amherst College recently resigned in a huff because the college hired a policeman to usurp their duties and because, due to the efficiency of this policeman, some Amherst and Smith students were dismissed for conduct unbecoming the quiet virtue of the Amherst campus. Even the serenity of Harvard calm has of late been ruffled by student government controversy. It is happening everywhere...
...well-tamed professor; Sarah is a kind, sensible, placid young spinster; Wilma is married and faraway; Wilfred, who had especially liked rabbits or other animals, is dead in France. Wise Mrs. Bonney is dead too, and foolish, likable Mr. Bonney has inexplicably taken himself another wife. This humble, quiet homily, neither gay nor tragic, has a brown plainness of treatment to match its substance. It is a novel for those who do not mistake savagery for sincerity, rage or ribaldry for realism, who can bear with a certain lack of energy and emphasis when it is not replaced with drooling...