Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that book appeared, Author Rosten was in Washington, working on a serious journalistic survey, The Washington Correspondents. Sly Author Rosten enjoyed hearing correspondents chuckle over Hyman Kaplan, ask who Leonard Q. Ross might be. Afraid they might not take his research job seriously if they knew, Author Rosten kept mum...
...Columbia University's crack Electrochemist Colin Garfield Fink in 1933, has never been industrially developed. Researchers of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. are reported to have hit on a promising technique, but they are keeping it under wraps for the present. Mr. Bach, skeptical of patent protection, kept mum about his method for quite a while...
...four nations concerned, only France, the legal if doubtful owner, entered a formal diplomatic complaint. The Japanese, who can keep silence as well as steal like gypsies, said little when France complained about the snatch of Hainan in February. They were mum this week...
...blown-up scrapbook of her career, I Wanted to Be an Actress is acceptable enough. But beyond that, the reader draws a blank. Either Katharine Cornell, in her devotion to her profession, has lacked time to study things and people or, having done so, she is resolved to keep mum. Dozens of names, from Greta Garbo's to Alexander Woollcott's, from David Belasco's to Orson Welles's stud the pages of her book, but none of them-not even her husband's, Director Guthrie McClintic -ever becomes a face. Toward other actors...
Mindful of German dislike of outside interference, they kept mum about their plans. At least two newspapers, the New York Times and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, knew what the three Friends were about, and kept mum too. But the Philadelphia Record got wind of the story, telephoned numerous Philadelphia Quakers, finally got hold of Quaker Jones on the Queen Mary. Despite his pleas, the Record splashed the story on its front page last week...