Word: mutes
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...harp that once through Tara's halls the soul of music shed" last week became belatedly the official coat of arms of the Irish Government. But the old instrument, concluded Dublin's newspapers, was still as mute as the poet said. One trouble was that in all Eire there were only eight people bothering to learn to play the thing...
...slow, and it was possible to study types. There was the Long Haired Southerner or Patronage Ouzel; the Snapping Southerner or Mississippi Valley Shrill; the rare Old Shaggy or Great Trumpeting Republican and a few aging Bald New Dealers. And, of course, there were droves of newly elected Mute Republicans, all harrumphing softly and rattling paper with an anxious air of authority...
Judgment. In Manhattan, Thomas Spurlock posed as a deaf-mute, handed cards to passers-by asking for help, got a nickel from one, growled: "Cheapskate," got 60 days...
...Britain, who thinks she saved the world, is mute in the bonds of austerity; Russia, who thinks she saved the world, sits back, enormous, suspicious, watching; and America, who thinks she saved the world, makes one think of a nervous, hysterical girl holding a hand grenade, not knowing when it will go off and not knowing what to do with...
...Vienna, Berlin or Warsaw. Some remembered more vividly the sight of parents being dragged off to gas chambers. All had been hauled wearily across warring Europe. When London's Central Jewish Refugee Committee rescued them at last in Prague, the 49 orphan children were like so many mute, shriveled old men & women...