Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stubbornly, insistently President Alcala Zamora of newly Republican Spain has pressed Pope Pius XI to withdraw Spain's die-hard Royalist Primate. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo (TIME, June 29). In Vatican City last week this long, silent diplomatic struggle ended with a decorous item in Osservatore Romano, Papal daily...
...Powell, identified with less lush impersonations at Paramount, seems vapid by contrast in this picture although his mannerisms are less noxious than those of Basil Rathbone, who played the role on the stage. Doris Kenyon, who is now no older in appearance than when she was an actress in silent cinemas years ago, helps out. But the real trouble lies in a story untrue to everything except a pattern which went out when third-rate writers stopped imitating Kipling. Typical shots: William Powell sneering at a young girl; leering at the doctor with whose wife he plans an escapade...
Last year he had sharing his office two raucous instructors. They whistled incessantly, "and always the same tunes, and always off the key. Remember that - always off the key. It is important." To order them to be silent was impossible for kindly Professor Shaw. Besides, their reaction might be more strident whistling. He thought of a ruse. For the university daily he wrote an article shaming whistlers in general. But the paper did not print it. Last week some New York University students who work as "campus" correspondents for the local dailies were be wailing the scantiness of university news...
...Haven, Conn., October 8--Officials of the Yale Athletic Association and other University authorities remained silent here today regarding the proposal of the Daily News that a special football game be scheduled for the benefit of the unemployed. the ranks of those who have advocated the game was swelled by Doctor Marvin A. Stevens, who vouched for the willingness of the entire squad to aid in relief work. In an editorial this morning the News suggested a contest with Notre Dame on December...
...generation or another, toward any of our citizens who expatriate themselves for a while, springs straight from this frontier prejudice. He who went abroad became hated both as a lost unit in a population which must be made ever larger, and also as a critic, albeit even a silent one, who might 'give the place a bad name' and hinder others from coming...