Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan busy Publisher Frank Aloysius Tichenor declared his New Outlook had used the Barry article "in good faith," that its author had a "long record for reliability, accuracy and integrity." Mum on the whole affair was Editor Smith...
...days later Jugoslavia's sovereigns left Sinaia for Belgrade. What pact or agreement, if any, had the two kings and their attendant statesmen made? Bucharest was mum. Belgrade buzzed with rumors of a secret agreement which was said to have bucked King Alexander up to the drastic measures that he took against his discontented subjects last week...
Jubilant British distillers hoped to empty their warehouses "which are bursting with good Scotch." At the British Exchequer, officials kept mum as owls about "tariff bargaining" with President Roosevelt after next March. British gossip writers twittered that "Mrs. Roosevelt went to school in England and has many friends here...
...several days all the governments of the world hesitated over the Herriot plan last week, keeping officially mum. Unofficially the German Government pointed out through its press spokesman that M. Herriot in proposing to turn the Reichwehr into a conscript army was proposing to break the Treaty of Versailles which forced upon Germany a volunteer army. Any breach in the Treaty, especially by a Frenchman, was so much to the good, the German spokesman declared, but of course the Fatherland would insist on "arms equality" (which M. Herriot had denounced as "re-armament...
...London several thousand "hunger marchers" gave His Majesty's Government their excuse for keeping mum, an example followed by Conservative papers. The Laborite Daily Herald flayed "Herriot's red herring," denounced his Six Conditions as intended to wreck the Disarmament Conference while seeming to assist it. Liberal editors were delighted by M. Herriot's insistence on compulsory arbitration, but on the whole Great Britain's reaction was cold...