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...decay, Ruby fights heroically to preserve the integrity of her own family. When her Scottish husband Gynt becomes a bird-loving mystic and proposes to search for wisdom in the Far East, Ruby is stricken, but has the courage to let him go. When stolid daughter Miranda, in mute rebellion against her mother's beauty, proposes to marry a mincing dressmaker, Ruby pulls together all her resources and prods Miranda into a decent marriage with a likable young man with the imposing name of James Edouard Goethe de Bas-Pouilly. The implication of the story seems to be that...
...talking stage, specific details for expansion are a meet point. Where the money would come from is a very mute point. "The U.S. Public Health Service is crying for more doctors," Dr. Fitz points out, "but we must not expand and lose quality...
...through the eight-day trial, Chemist Abe Brothman and his coconspirator, Miriam Moskowitz, sat mute and unblinking as dummies in a waxworks. They flatly refused to testify in their own defense, even after Soviet Spy Harry Gold took the stand to testify that Brothman had passed scores of defense blueprints to him, and that Brothman and his assistant, Miss Moskowitz, had gleefully helped Gold concoct a phony story for a 1947 grand jury investigation (TIME, Nov. 27). Last week in Manhattan district court, a federal jury found the two guilty of obstructing the U.S. Government's investigation of espionage...
...smooth pole with all the eagerness of a man struggling for life," and commended the practice to dyspeptic readers. At a temperance meeting, he noted with amusement a sign reading BEWARE THE FIRST GLASS.** Whitman, a nondenominational Christian, told how he explained the Crucifixion, by signs, to a deaf-mute child: "It was very singular . . . that the mind of this dumb youth seemed to respond at once to the idea...
Cinemactress Jane Wyman, who just won Britain's annual Picturegoer's award for her performance of a deaf-mute in Johnny Belinda, told readers of Cosmopolitan magazine that women talk too much: "A girl does not lose dignity by silence. She loses it by talking for the obvious purpose of just saying something...