Word: noiselessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needless horn-blowing, but I feel sure that nearly everyone has owed his life at one time or another to the timely blast of an automotive horn. I uphold the saying "Rely on your brakes instead of your horn," but that axiom does not always apply. How does noiseless Mr. Brown expect to pass a lumbering motor truck on a narrow road? The driver would be only too glad to pull over if he knew someone wished to pass. IT IS NOT ONLY DISCOURTEOUS BUT DANGEROUS TO TRY TO PASS A CAR WITHOUT LETTING THE DRIVER KNOW...
...bodied, short-legged, arch-backed member of the weasel family which likes nothing better than a fight. Minks fight each other, kill and eat almost any bird, fish or non-carnivorous beast smaller than themselves, some larger. In captivity they are clean, hardy, except for an occasional chirp almost noiseless. They need one meal a day, chiefly meat and fish. They like to swim but can do without it. Almost any country place where autumn weather is brisk will do for a mink farm...
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...