Word: mute
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High spots in the performance were the sterling blunderbuss-shooting of Mr. Murdock and the valiant actions of Mr. Jackson, whose mute eloquence brought the audience to its feet in wild acclaim...
...arts are represented, and by specimens which tend to be a persuasive, even if mute, testimony in an age of rampant modernism. In his well-written, though necessarily hurried, and even breathless, survey, Mr. Wickham pauses to inveigh against those modernist critics, who deprecate the masters of yore in order to extol "now a van Gogh, now a Picasso, now a Klee, now a Braque, now a Wadsworth, or now the art of the primitive Negroes or the Seljuka." That kind of criticism is indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against...
This is no mere unpractical philosophy. It is America's hope. Large body-guards bear mute witness to the possibility of the first part. As for the counterfeiting, criminals have recently developed the art to an almost perfect degree. Several dies were found for producing fifty cent pieces only recently. Perhaps crime will make its last beautiful gesture to us before it is obliterated from this country forever...
...solitary cars bear mute witness to the ridiculous financial requirements for space. Six dollars a month is, one mutters, an outrageous price to charge a man for leaving his car with no other cover but the sky. Six dollars a month ... many proprietors near the Square charge less or only slightly more for a roof and steam heat. Six dollars a month. . . four cars or so--with provision for four dozen...
Married. Don Jaime, 26, second son of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Emanuela de Dampierre. 20, granddaughter of Princess Ruspoli Poggio di Suasa, (née Josephine Curtis of Boston); in Rome. Born a deaf-mute, Don Jaime has learned to speak croakingly...