Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Permit me to express my appreciation of the quiet and reserved dignity with which you referred to the meeting of the Chicago Dental Society...
Most effective of all was vice president Philip Murray of the United Mine Work ers, a youthful person with a quiet voice, who talked for three hours to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee about injunctions, evictions,, bloodshed, rape, coal prices and the cost of living. When Mr. Murray was through, no non-union mine operator answered him. The Committee voted to recommend a Senate investigation...
...wife of meat packer) have a dog farm at Highland Park, Ill. Last week a cat crept in among 150 of the dogs; created a yapping, snapping havoc. A passerby rescued the cat, helped quiet the dogs, asked for a fine bulldog, was granted his request...
...thrived thereafter under Gustavus T. Kirby, was a far more pretentious organization. Its evening auction sales of paintings and oriental knickknacks, held at Chickering Hall, were social diversions. Manhattan art patrons would fill themselves with quail and chilled champagne, call for their broughams, and drive through the streets, quite quiet except for the soft drumming of horses' hoofs, to the auction room. The men would smoke long cigars during the sale and bid furiously because it was good fun and a Wall Street habit...
...available. The brothers built their Wright Aeronautical Laboratories at Dayton, Ohio, where they had started business as bicycle dealers. Wilbur Wright was the laboratories' director until his death in 1912. Orville Wright has been director since. At Dayton, Orville Wright, now 56 and well-to-do, leads a quiet life. He keeps an office in the downtown section...