Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albany, Protestant ministers had attended a hearing on a proposal to strike from the State Constitution its article against gambling. Though they were voluble concerning the moral aspects of gambling, the ministers were unable to explain why gambling, any more than prostitution, should be specifically unconstitutional. Roman Catholics kept mum. Their tidy attitude on this question is that gambling is licit if: 1) the gamer owns and can afford to lose what he wagers; 2) he acts of his own free will; 3) there is no fraud; 4) there is equality among the parties to the game. By no means...
...ideology to save our nation from the grim chaos of Bolshevism. Instead of bowing humbly to God's will, he was continually talking about persecution and martyrdom. I know that Bishop Sproll covets the halo of a martyr. This halo will not be denied him." Bishop Sproll kept mum...
...polling places. Boastfully proud of his army and contemptuous of Cuban politicians, Batista called this election "the fairest and most honorable in the republic's history." Cuba's much-bossed President, Federico Laredo Bru, who has long been expected to announce his resignation after this election, kept mum last week about himself, but made a possibly ironic speech of "thanks" to citizens of Santiago for their "demonstrative" greeting to his "representative," Batista, on the occasion of a grand fiesta celebrating the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of Cuba's struggle for independence...
...ground floor & basement. From storing sets it descended to clumping & burning them-$30 a truckload for the ride, $4 for the bonfire. Presently Cain's took to burning unclaimed junk at its own expense. Finally, on the last day of 1937, it folded secretly. Patsy Cain kept mum about it for six weeks, hoping for a saving miracle. Said he last week: ''I got out without being exactly broke, but if I had waited much longer...
Without exception every Tokyo paper reported that the Japanese Government would reject the Brussels Conference's proposals, Nichi Nichi adding that the Conference had better advise China to approach Japan directly and sue for peace. Adolf Hitler, having kept completely mum and kept Germany out of the Conference, was conceded by European observers to be building up a position of technical aloofness to which Japanese and Chinese might ultimately turn, should they decide that One Man can mediate better than a Conference...