Word: mute
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much more interesting and proud." Not I, But the Wind is in no sense a great book but it is a convincingly naive memoir, thickly padded with unpublished Lawrence letters, that most Lawrentians will want to read. And, having read it, even Lawrentians may heed the mute nunc dimittis of their master's shade...
...city machine opposed him, and the Eastern Shore, where his anti-lynching stand last winter was widely resented (TIME, Oct. 30, 1933). Nevertheless, Maryland's perennial chief executive won by nearly 50,000 votes his fourth successive Democratic renomination to succeed himself. Harry Whinna Nice of Baltimore gave mute, inglorious Senator Phillips Lee Goldsborough a two-to-one trouncing for the Republican right to oppose Governor Ritchie...
...cold, unimaginative Victoria Eugenie, Princess of Battenberg, brought her husband woe too. She was never really popular among Spaniards. She brought the King the dread haemophilia (easy bleeding) of her house, bore him a haemophilia heir, a second son who was a deaf mute, finally two whole boys, two fine girls capable of passing on their mother's haemophilia...
...White Plains, N. Y., deaf mute Joseph Donahue was miserable because his deafmute mate, Bertha, no longer loved him. When his affectionate fingers soothed, coaxed, enlaced in tender love words. Bertha's fingers only snapped, coiled, contorted scornfully. In time, Joseph became suspicious, enlisted deafmute friends to trail Bertha, sued for divorce. In court, after the fingers of his friends curled, twirled, twisted out their discovery of Bertha's adultery with an electrical engineer, she could only wring, writhe, entwine her own fluttering hands in full confession...
...wish to know what my act consists of? Well, singing. . . and dancing. . . and. . . (here Miss De Shone made a mute but expressive gesture toward her shoulder straps) No, until the censors came there was no limit to my act. . . Oh, now don't misunderstand me; I think there is a limit to everything, but in this case I was my own censer...