Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outlines of the hills on the mainland; far across the bay lights gleamed on a yacht, and there was a lightly-heard music from the deck where guests of a very rich sinner were dancing. There were only two figures on the great rocks by the beach, watching the silent panorama of moon and stars, listening to the waltzes from the distant craft. They were completely alone in the darkness, distinguishable only by the tips of fire which their cigarettes left against the dark background of spruce. "Won't you keep the box?" she asked him sweetly. "I have...
...contributed ideas as had Bernard Baruch, Wall Street's "White Eagle." Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley of the Roosevelt ''brain trust" had done his share of advising and researching. Circulated in advance among railroad men and bankers interested in rail securities, an early draft had received wide if silent commendation. The final address represented the composite thought of financiers, managers, employes and investors...
Japan's Backers. Dismayed by the sheer number of its unheeded protests, the U. S. State Department was silent about Japan's land grab in Manchuria last week. Not so the French Foreign Office. Ever so tactfully in their gilded and ornate Quai D'orsay, French undersecretaries assured reporters that "the French Government's reaction, on the whole, is favorable...
...next three they halved. At the 34th green Somerville holed out in one putt for a birdie 3. Goodman, short on his second shot, had to pitch on the green, take a brave par 4. They halved the next in par 3's to make Charles Ross ("Silent Sandy") Somerville the second alien ever to hold the U. S. amateur title. The other was Britain's Harold Hilton (Apawamis...
...Rome last week Signer Achille Starace, abrupt Secretary General of the Fascist Party, ordered that "to maintain the dignity of Fascist customs" the Official shout will no longer be given "except when saluting II Duce." Lesser Fascist leaders will receive silent salutes, out-stretchings of the right arm at an upward inclination...