Word: mumness
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...always been chaperoned when sleeping under the royal roof. In these ghastly circumstances, Britons could only hope that Baldwin the Magnificent (see p. 17) had, with sealed lips all round, already obtained the final divorce of Mrs. Simpson as well as her formal, signed and sealed undertakings to remain mum...
...years ago was a tense calm for two months before the tornado of the general strike. Last week, many a Russian Hill housewife began stocking canned food in readiness for another general strike, but Trouble-Shooters McGrady and Hamlet loudly proclaimed that negotiations would yet succeed. President Roosevelt kept mum, but Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins left a train at Buffalo to telephone a trite request for more negotiation. The unions agreed. The shipowners refused...
...human mind is fallible." Far from downcast were Messrs. Greene and Cannon as they signed statements releasing Mr. Gerard from his bet, in return for $1,700 each of Mr. Gerard's money by way of indemnity. Betting Commissioner Greene pocketed his profits, kept mum. Mr. Cannon presented his profits to the Republican campaign fund as he beamed: "This amounts to getting something for nothing and you can't kick at that." Asked whether he would place his bet against Roosevelt elsewhere, he emphatically repudiated the idea: "I wouldn't sell my vote this year...
...even a special session of the Kansas Legislature, meeting last week to approve social security amendments to the State Constitution, could budge Nominee Alf M. Landon from his resolve to keep mum on national issues until his acceptance speech in Topeka next week...
Last week the British Foreign Office with record rapidity posted a reply to Dictator Kamâl Atatürk assuring him of a treaty-revising conference "without delay." Soviet Russia hastened to assure Turkey of its backing. Though the Italian Foreign Office kept mum, Italian officials privately protested that "a situation would be created equally serious as Germany's violation of the Locarno Pact." Except from Italy's point of view, this was hardly true. The original peace treaty with Turkey was the ignominious Treaty of Sévres which stripped Turkey and partitioned it into French...