Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shrunken old Greek President Alexander Zaimis remained mum as the Sphinx all week while his resignation was rumored hourly and Royalist slogans appeared, "Vote For Georgios II, A Democratic King!" The Tsaldaris Cabinet announced it would hold a plebiscite Oct. 27 on a restoration of the Monarchy-provided, of course, that a settlement of the issue by the trusty and traditional Greek method of a coup d'état did not occur before then...
...know anything about it," snapped President Walter B. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey, arriving in Manhattan from London, where he had remained at the Ritz Hotel during the whole pother. Still 100% mum. Tycoon Teagle debarked in Manhattan last week, while London papers still rumored that he hired Mr. Rickett in the first place and ordered the promoter's fat fee paid last week regardless of future developments...
Congress members who differed from Nazi eugenic tenets contented themselves with remaining mum observers last week while the German Press quoted Dr. Campbell by the yard. Abroad excited Jewish editors tried to dig up something against him, found nothing more remarkable than that his wife was named Helen Fahnestock. Socialite Dr. Campbell's boldest dicta: "The difference between the Jew and the Aryan is as unsurmountable as that between black and white. . . . Germany has set a pattern which other nations must follow...
Died. "Dusty" Matthews, 86, retired fisherman, "friend of King Edward"; in Eastbourne, England. Seeing George V and Queen Mary strolling last spring, Fisherman Matthews pumped the monarch's hand, said: "I'm pleased to meet you, Captain. I knew your mum and dad" (TIME, April...
...Ambassador Saito found themselves in hot water, the Administration observed piously that it cannot interfere with the freedom of the U. S. Press. In the offices of Vanity Fair it was hoped for some hours that the State Department might send a bit of suggestion or advice, but mum to Vanity Fair were Secretary Hull and President Roosevelt...