Word: mute
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already 28 and divorced when Belasco gave her her first part in 1890, attained first & overnight fame five years later in The Heart of Maryland, in whose most spectacular scene she gripped the clapper of a huge bell 30 ft. above the stage, swung her body back & forth to mute its tones, saved her doomed lover's life...
...Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, after a stomach operation, in Skagen Jutland; Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 87, Japan's last surviving elder statesman, as a result of "a train ride too soon after luncheon." in Okitsu, Japan; Deaf-mute Teacher Helen Keller, after an abdominal operation, in Rochester, Minn.; Maryland's one-eyed Governor Harry Nice, after an emergency operation for removal of an abscess, in Baltimore...
...Irkutsk, while our train was delayed for a fews hours, I hired a scared izvoztchik (cabby) to drive me around the downtown part of the city. Fresh shell scars on the public buildings and a great pit in the public square containing several hundred lime-covered bodies were mute evidences of a recent raid by Semenov. Farther east our train was forced to spend a day at Chita because the single track east of there had been torn up in a clash between Bolshevik and Semenov troops. When track repairs had been completed, our train crept slowly on into White...
...left their music as the mind's mute din To swell upon occasions as today...
...cuff had caught the throttle lever and sharply shut it or whether, as Colonel Harker afterwards said, because of a fleeting, almost intangible carburation mood ... I do not know. At any rate there was no tremor, no noise; nothing but the sudden sight of the red bulb, a mute witness. But the engine had not stopped at all. and did not stop...