Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, the secret being officially out, most correspondents still kept mum. Daring, an Associated Pressman cabled that he had just ventured to drive rapidly past Berlin's secret air bases "without stopping," adding: "Barbed wire encloses them. Each is screened off by old forest growth or newly planted trees which will soon shut off the view. . . . The first and nearest to Berlin is that at Kladow. . . . The fact that several months of excavation preceded the above-ground work at Kladow seems to indicate the presence of subterranean networks [of aircraft storage space]. . . . The Kladow project covers perhaps four...
...State Department was reported "displeased" by Admiral Reeves's impetuosity. Aboard his flagship last week, Japan's slim Naval Commander-in-Chief Admiral Sankiti Takahashi remained mouse-mum...
...onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt has kept amazingly mum on that subject since he became President. News queries at Washington on naval policy are commonly referred to grey and graceful little Norman Hezekiah Davis, who served President Hoover as disarmament Ambassador-at-Large, continues so to serve President Roosevelt. In London at the deadlocked Naval Parley (TIME, Dec. 3), it was Ambassador Davis' privilege last week to tell the world just where, in the President's opinion, Japan gets...
...Tobacco Road" forgetting to re-touch his make up. Florence Reed is a grisly bridge, growing yearly more grisly as the morbid Miss Havisham. Her twenty year old wedding cake is such a masterpiece of Hollywood cobwebbing that even Pip, when asked what it is, says "dunno Mum. . ." Phillips Holmes achieves an accurate and gloriously irritating cockney accent of such poignancy that no one is more relieved than the audience when he finally learns to speak like a gentleman. He is union persuasive as the blacksmith's apprentice but is the epitome of gentility when be waltzes at Richmond House...
...incident. Hall had two days on the island, talked to the descendants of the mutineers, prowled the storied spots to his heart's content. Though it was near hurricane season he looked forward to as peaceful a passage home, with plenty of leisure to read the MED-to-MUM volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica he had brought with him to while away the time. But about 3 a. m. one night of dirty weather they struck the reef of Timoe. Luckily the schooner wedged herself on the coral; they were able to launch a boat, get everyone safely ashore...