Word: mute
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...empty chairs, churns on and on; the music must be coming to a climax, for now his arms wildly flagellate; he whips his fiddlers up to a crisis, holds his phantom cymbals and horns and woodwinds suspended in a terrific fortissimo of silence, and then, at a final mute drum-stroke, drops his arms to his sides. . . . Standing alone, his back to the audience, he orders his invisible orchestra to rise to the applause that does not come ? turns, smiles, walks quickly...
...counteract this morbid tendency the generous of the world have succeeded in devising methods of communicating for the deaf. One will recall the experiments which enabled blind, deaf, mute Helen Keller finally to speak. In reading lips most deaf people have become so adept that no longer do cinema actors dare blaspheme or talk ribaldry before the camera. Incidentally the cinema has been a great blessing for the deaf...
...Marion Z. Jessup for the Longwood title, 7-5, 6-2. Once Mrs. Jessup was within a point of taking a set. She whacked a speedy forehand into the left corner of the court-a beautiful passing shot. Two of the linesmen looked at each other with a mute, sleepy question. They called...
...classification of Diptera a house fly and a horse fly, having it out through the screen, and by two bits off free verse. One poet thinks that the "buttercup virginity" of the faculty would be more poignant if it could be "decently lyrical." Perhaps this plaint may sting some "mute inglorious Milton" to verse. After all Homer begged his way through seven cities. The vernal note is again struck in a final celebration of James Christopher Grant reading Plato's "Kriton" to the undulations of his rocking chair. When he gets through with the "Crito" he will have to read...
...annual printed list of suggestions appears, But let me ask again--would it be easy to improve on the list of men now in office? To be sure, it might be preferable--in the sense that they would be able to give more time to the duries if more mute inglorious Miltons were chosen instead of men of wider reputation. But the difficulty is that the voters, the Alumni, fail to elect them: they prefer to vote for--candidates whose names and activities are familiar. The committee to suggest names has frequently tried the expedient only to find that...