Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his chief at the Hotel du Rhin. anxiously arrived. As Herr Littorin pushed into the bedroom President Kreuger, dressed in a business suit, seemed peacefully asleep upon his bed. Manhattan's Stock Exchange was still open. The French police were instructed by a Cabinet Minister to keep mum. Even when selling of Kreuger & Toll in Wall Street became so fast & furious that 25.5% of all shares traded were of this issue, no U. S. news agency thought to cable Paris for news of the Match King. His friends announced his death after all world markets closed. Swedish Match...
...Italian Ambassador called at the hospital, went away mum. Recently all Belgium had been hearing stories (TIME, March 16) of how Belgian Princess Maria Jose had quarreled in Rome with her bridegroom, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy. Press-guessing began...
...word for your guidance is 'Mum,' 'Mum,' 'Mum...
...each other. But by a hand-crank in the pilot's cockpit, the lower wing can be moved fore & aft, pendulum-like, through an arc of 14 degrees, tilting the upper wing to the same degree. About to land, the pilot sets his wings at the maxi mum angle, throttles the motor, and lets the plane settle. Because the centre of gravity is well aft, the plane will not nose over, according to its designers. Also, it is claimed, the plane is incapable of spinning, diving, stunting-of anything except safe, conventional flight. Only visible difference from an ordinary...
...Narrator is William Ashenden, middle-aged bachelor writer, through whose disillusioned eyes you see unfolded the story of Edward Drimeld and the lovely Rosie. When Edward Drimeld died his late-won position as Grand Old Man of English Letters was secure. His shrewd second wife wanted an official, respectably-mum-mifying biography, asked the popular novelist Alroy Rear to write it. But Ashenden was one of the few who knew anything about Driffield's early life. When Kear tried to pump him, Ashenden had reason to tell only a little of what he knew. The rest he tells...