Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hubbard Woods, Ill., the lanky, 26-year-old son of Walter Lowrie Fisher, one of Chicago's leading lawyers. Secretary of the Interior under President Taft. Howard Fisher is both a technician and theorist in architecture. Architects in many lands have read his paper on getting the maxi mum amount of sunlight into a house. He is considered an expert on designing squash courts. One day he noticed his brother's walls were leaking. When he found out that Chicago's Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium, both masonry structures, also had leak troubles, he decided steel would be a better...
Rousing cheers for Churchill showed the mood of the House. That mood was Opportunity knocking at the door of David Lloyd George. He had been silent in debate since last October, mum since the General Election of that month robbed him of all following in the House except three M. P.'s who are members of his family.? Seeing his chance last week the Welshman rose and launched into an oration which soon drew cheer on cheer...
Promptly the Munich judge ruled, "You must answer the lawyer. The Court has no questions." But Witness Hitler kept mum as an owl, sat with arms folded while his brownshirt followers filled the courtroom with a chant of "Germany awake! Awake!! Awake...
...Taking the standoffish attitude of a soldier who thinks civil matters should be left to civilians, Col. Marmaduke Grove said: "I declare emphatically the firm determination of the Army & Navy not to mix in politics but to continue fulfillment of their duty in protecting the Socialist Republic." General Puga, mum as an owl, retired...
Under iron fiscal decrees, sanctioned by President von Hindenburg, a German citizen receiving income from abroad today must exchange all his foreign money into marks. Author Remarque, who founded and heads a writers' colony at Monte Verita, Switzerland, kept mum there last week when told of the seizure of his 20,000 mark ($4,760) Berlin account...