Word: mum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with both, unmasked the second bandit. His companion dropped his revolver, pulled out a hammer swaddled in a towel. Publisher McGraw dodged, then prudently subsided. They bound & gagged him, took $90 from his coat pocket, escaped. Released by a porter. Publisher McGraw gruffly told newshawks: "I wanted it kept mum, because I'm not much of a hero. I'm a very modest young fellow...
When the Government announced the lucky numbers in the second drawing last week, most of the new winners kept mum. Since the Government exempts National Lottery winnings from the income tax and publishes winning numbers but not winning names, their secret was their own. Going to the Government bureaus to collect their prize money, many winners loitered for a time with the crowd pretending to wait for news, finally eased in through the door. When they emerged, they covered their faces with their hands to foil photographers, raced panic-stricken for cover. When 16 Frenchmen became franc millionaires...
...critics with every sympathy for the idea back of the arch, for the industry of Sculptor Barnard and for the artistic value of many of the individual figures stayed mum. None dared remind a man who has worked 15 years on one job that a 100-foot arch is not sculpture but architecture. The vast panels of plaster he has designed are white excrescences oozing from masonry. Despite their individual merit and the noble symbolism they represent, not one of the 53 figures has any structural connection with the arch of which it is a part...
With Prime Minister MacDonald and President Roosevelt both keeping mum, Europe was startled by rumors from Berlin that President von Hindenburg will re-sign after the German election of Nov. 12, to be succeeded by Adolf Hitler as unconditional Head of the State...
...more widely known in the U. S. today (through faked labels) than they were before Prohibition. Two D.C.L. representatives came to Manhattan early last spring, spent several months and thousands of dollars on surveys of potential business. Wined & dined by nearly every U. S. liquorman, they have kept politely mum...