Word: noiseless
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This letter is written on the latest model desk type "Remington Noiseless...
...society inaugurated last year, its leaders promised to break their long silence, and speak to a confused world with the authority which attends recognized ability. The world economic situation was analyzed in its several phases, national discussion of a quiet kind was provoked, and then the society entered the noiseless tenor of the quarterly way. The critical chorus, temporarily silenced, has resumed its cavil...
...Then there are three most excellent characterizations: the Lord High Executioner, the Lord High Everything Else, and the Mikado. Mr. William Danforth, as the Mikado, is a player most perfectly in the Gilbertian tradition. His devastating Oriental grin stretches permanently from ear to ear; he rocks with noiseless merriment as Ko-Ko tells of the deadly snickersnee; he recites the list of hand-tailored punishments aimiably through his teeth, till suddenly his blood-curdling laugh, like Mephistopheles, rips up and down the baritone scale. He is so like a scoundrel, and so like a benevolent bishop at a christening, that...
Next to Editrix Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Herald sat Colyumist Arthur Brisbane pecking away, eyes down cast, mouth drooping, at a noiseless type writer. Dedicated with the rest of the Hearst organization to the Presidential candidacy of Democrat John Nance Garner, he had little of interest to say about the Convention, but he, too, considered Reporter Rogers good copy. "It's a mistake about Will Rogers being so rich," wrote he. "John D. Rockefeller Jr., recently in Chicago, is much richer than Mr. Rogers, who if you asked him 'Where is your next million coming from,' would have...
When the New York Herald Tribune commented fortnight ago upon the failure of Manhattan's Noise Abatement Commission to produce a noiseless ashcan, its editorial was headlined, Ellis Parker Butler-wise: "Ashcans Is Ashcans." Few days later the meticulous Boston Transcript reprinted the editorial, changed the headline to: "Ashcans Are Ashcans." Observed the Herald Tribune last week: "So they may be-in Boston. In New York they is. But wherever it may be read the Transcript certainly are the Transcript. The singular verb is inadequate to a paper of such imperturbable grammar...