Word: quietus
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...Heard Huey Pierce Long shrill for action on his demand that it investigate James Aloysius Farley, gave him a stinging quietus...
...final legislative quietus was put on the Townsend Plan when certain facts were pointed out to Southern Congressmen: if aged negro mammies and pappies drew $200 a month, none of their offspring would do a lick of work-the South would be ruined. Therefore no Southern Congressman need sign a petition to bring the Townsend Plan to the floor and if it were not brought to the floor no one need vote for it. Everyone breathed easier...
...falter when she tries to suggest the clutter of the coastal cities and the amazement of a young Chinese in the U. S. Her style has been compared by her more enthusiastic followers to the prose of the King James Bible. Critic Stark Young has attempted to put the quietus to this claim by printing some of Pearl Buck and some of the King James Bible in parallel columns...
...turned soldier, comes back to his paternal home on London Bridge after a ten-year absence, to find his betrothed wed to an old curmudgeon, to get himself hopelessly entangled with his best friend's fiancée. Luckily for all Jack Cade's rebellion puts a quietus on these amorous monkeyshines, and the story ends in a grand blaze of street-fighting, with London Bridge tottering on its old foundations...
...became Jack's idealized light-o'-love; the London hermit who lived in a vacant lot and ate garbage, a onetime chartered accountant who had left wife and job because he could not stand the feeling of insecurity both gave him. Starving in London put a temporary quietus on Jack's yearning for adventure; when he had had enough he went stumbling back home, to his mother's querulous greeting: "And I'd like to know what's happened to your new tweed suit...