Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stanford's roomy football stadium, where 90,000 persons can look on. They prepared to throw some of the campus fraternity houses open to visiting newsgatherers. Distinguished guests were to be accommodated in faculty homes, including the small model residences which Mrs. Hoover has been building with quiet generosity for low-salaried instructors to buy on the instalment plan...
...DEMOCRATIC PARTY: A HISTORY-Frank R. Kent-Century ($4). Mr. Kent, hot-pointed commentator of the Baltimore Sunpapers, strives for quiet lucidity in this book; tells a simple, well-connected story of the oldest party...
Intelligence. More impressive than any outburst was the attentive silence which obtained in the monster convention hall during the quiet speech of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was the third time since 1920 that Mr. Roosevelt had placed his friend, Alfred Emanuel Smith, in nomination for the Presidency. In those eight years, Mr. Roosevelt had been crippled by, but now had almost recovered from, infantile paralysis. With his limp and cane and the stretch of suffering on his face, he might have made an appeal to the audience more emotional than any of the other speakers. Instead, he held himself erect...
Strolling home with his empty rifle José Marinat saw his mother standing in the doorway and felled her with a single blow. The sight of her quiet body seemed to penetrate at last into his maddened brain. Throwing away his rifle he plunged again into the woods, wandered aimlessly for two days, was hunted down and shot dead by efficient agents of the famed Spanish Guardia Civil...
Three problems confront the makers of talkies: 1) Women's voices. At present, most of them have a lisp or a husky sound when heard over the Vitaphone. 2) Dialog. Subtitle writers can be stupid, but writers of dialog that is heard should be clever. 3) Sound and Quiet. The abrupt changes in the middle of a film from mute lips to sound-emitting lips are annoying, unreal. (Perhaps the full-length films can be divided into talking acts and nontalking acts...