Word: quietus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quietus...
...TIME, Oct. 30, you quote the New York Times as saying: "Men and women in Salem, two centuries ago, were burned for witchcraft far less amazing. . . ." Cannot your magazine help to put the quietus on this old lie, which crops up periodically? No witches were ever burned in New England: a number were hanged and one was pressed to death-a record of which we are not proud, but at least we are not guilty of the more cruel accusation...
...idea why he did it, but he found himself knocking on the door. As he recalls it, he was going to ask if this were where someone named Smith lived. Now there was not a sound. The voice had halted abruptly with "...When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?". Vag tapped again--still no sound. Vag tried the door and to his amazement it was unlocked. Warily he pushed it open, and there was an eerie creak of rusty hinges. The room was almost empty except for a case of ancient folios thick with dust...
...Clark, Democratic State Campaign Committee chairman, and Ellis Patterson, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, are Communist Party members; that Culbert Olson, Democratic candidate for Governor, and Sheridan Downey, for Senator, loyally subscribe to the Communist "Party Line." Whereupon Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee vigilantly awoke from quietus, announced that it would investigate reports that Mr. Knowles's Associated Farmers is window dressing for union-busting bankers, utilities, railroads...
...have taken the time and trouble in the midst of the busy life of a medical practitioner to obtain some official figures which I hope will give the time-worn libel its quietus...