Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inmates gazed at one another in mute astonishment, the Vagabond rushed from the room. "Bring on that barbed wire, where are those shovels? Muscles! Biceps! Feet! Ears! Good-bye Momma, I'm off to . . ." and his voice died away in the distance...
...eloquent and intellectually keen as any in his long career. The raw edges of his mustache waved like flags as he charged that "the best-armed army in the world will go under if the commanders don't know how to inspire the will to fight." With Gamelin mute, said he, the onus of war guilt was on political leaders, and, if so, where were the still-imprisoned ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and ex-Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel...
...Grant-Huemer script, which had the germ of every important episode of the final screen version, gave Dumbo a voice, but it was quickly evident that the way to insure the taupe-colored little elephant's appeal was to keep him mute. He is, except for a few burps after he has inadvertently imbibed champagne and an occasional infantile...
After the Russians were whipped. Japan seized Korea with her victorious army and told the world that Korea wished to become her protectorate. Korea was made a puppet like Manchukuo. Korea appealed to the powers who had treaty obligations with her to redress her grievances. Mute was their response. It was the beginning of tacitly appeasing the subtle aggressor. Finally, Japan again by force annexed Korea in 1910 and gracefully announced that the Emperor of Korea made complete and permanent cession to the Emperor of Japan of all rights of sovereignty over Korea and the Emperor of Japan consented...
...penny-pinching proclivities of Republic, largest of the independent studios, have been a longstanding joke to spendthrift Hollywood. Example: mute extras earn $7.50 a day; those who speak so much as one word get $25. In many a Republic Western the hero rides up to a corral character and asks: "Did so-and-so pass here?" The extra nods. "Which way?" The extra points. "How many with him?" The extra holds up the necessary number of fingers. Total payroll saving...