Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Social Democrats in the Province of Bergenland. The guilt of the three young Nationalists had seemed a moral certainty; but Bergenland is so strongly Nationalist that many feared their conviction might cause riots there. When it was announced last week that the youths had been acquitted, Bergenland was quiet, smug; but Vienna, where Communists and Social Democrats vastly outnumber Nationalists, burst into demonstrations of irritation which verged upon civil...
...forgotten. Jobholders whose jobs he had secured for them, officials whose offices had come from his bounty-they ignored him now. Back in the fall of 1926 he had threatened to expose some of the less lovely incidents of Indiana statesmanship, had received word that if he kept quiet until after the election he would be "taken care of." He had kept quiet, but his reticence had not been rewarded. In June he had protested against the treatment he was getting in the jail, and an investigating board had found his complaints unfounded. Last week he asked Governor Ed. Jackson...
...Stalin, a cold, stern, quiet man, generally garbed in a coarse peasant's blouse, said...
...Author, long secretary and now wife of Poet Edmund Clarence Stedman, is grandniece of famed last-century Margaret Fuller* who edited The Dial with Emerson. The present Margaret Fuller is a quiet, industrious, self-critical lady who has let five years go by without releasing a novel to add to the reputation won for her with A New England Childhood (1916) and One World at a Time (1922). She lives at Norwichtown, Conn, (near New London...
Later, and in a more quiet mood, Pastor Straton found the opportunity to say: "... While Warren [his son] was praying, the power of God came over him just as it did over Paul and struck him down in the dust, as it came in ancient times over whole companies of men. I am not ashamed of it, nor is my son ashamed of it.... I am not a publicity hound.... I have been fighting unrighteousness since I came down to New York, and I have been doing it in a corner. What I would rather do than anything else...