Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Victor Behar, of Glasgow, went to a quiet hotel and had his luggage brought up. In one suitcase he had a docket of papers, the pedigree of the rug attested by the curators of the Austrian State Museum and witnessed by the British consul in Vienna. It was at least 150 years old when the Shah gave it to Peter. Leopold used it as a tapestry in the bedroom of his summer palace. Other Emperors took good care of it; at last it went to the State Museum. French officials said that it was worth twelve million francs and taxed...
...move to and fro, pursuing lions, antelopes, ibexes, boars, hares, foxes, jackals and other beasts; many flowers, some western, some Persian, and some the flowers of no land, riot softly on the ground, or hang from delicate vines. The background is salmon-colored. Around the central field runs a quiet legend. In the middle all js speed: bugles blow there, stallions leap, and the beards of riding Khans shake out like flame along a wind of fruits and blossoms. But the border reposes. Two figures with wings recur regularly among the budding leaves; their costumes proclaim them to be Persian...
...populace of Massachusetts as a whole. Drawn not by the main, or academic tent, whose attractions at this time consisted chiefly of orations in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek, but by the side-shows clustering around the big top, the countryfolk and townspeople flocked to Cambridge, and choked the quiet precincts of the town and college until, we are reminded, the place was nothing less than Revere Beach in eighteenth century miniature...
Sentimentality, and laziness are, in their own way, amusing. And after the quiet sibilations of supposed British accents the roars of the brave colonel are refreshing. Nor is Miss Landis unattractive. One could not mind having her about the house. The aged Jean Jacques was not such a fool, after all. And no one can dislike hearing a man go singing to his death when one is sure he will return. The colonel had to return, if only to wave his handkerchief. By the way, devotees of the Metropolitan should see the uniform on--was he a captain? That alone...
...repairing the Union last summer several thousand dollars more than has ever been spent on decorating was expended upon the magazine, writing and quiet rooms, and upon other parts of the building...