Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warr's house passed. Pale, unsmiling. Mr. MacDonald returned to Downing Street, had nothing to say. His doctor admitted the Prime Minister's "extreme nervous fatigue" but called his health satisfactory. Still torn by alternatives. Scot MacDonald week-ended at Chequers, returned to London still pale, still silent...
...first time in my life," she cried, "I saw the Atlantic Fleet given a silent reception at Plymouth! . . . But our gloom soon turned to hope when we got in touch with the men of the lower deck. I spent three days going among them, and never once came across a sailor who realized the consequences of his action. ... It is hard for anybody who does not know the British sailor to realize the simplicity of his point of view, but I assure my friends in America and elsewhere that the British Navy is as safe and sound as ever...
...Heywood Broun, the late Radical John Reed. Few graduates stick to their undergraduate determination to be a man of letters: Aiken did. Last year, after reaping the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems, he took his wife and three children (John, Jane, Joan) to live permanently in England. Nearsighted, silent, excruciatingly shy, Conrad Aiken is a serious, hard-working poet who occasionally ventures into prose. To a fellow-passenger on a liner who asked Aiken: "What's your line?" he replied: "Blank verse!" Aiken's ambition is to write "a sort of absolute poetry, a poetry in which...
...place of organists. Said Rowland W. Dunham, director of the College of Music at the University of Colorado (Boulder, Col.): "We are all agreed that good, unaccompanied choral singing is beautiful, appropriate and desirable, but is that all that should be heard in church? Shall the organ be silent except for its necessary help on the hymns, a very short prelude and a totally useless postlude? I think not. Of course the organist is still a necessary evil in most churches where this new type of choirmaster is in control. ... At best the position of the organist in these churches...
...strange misshapen houses of which Barcelona is so proud were close shuttered and dark last week. No lights twinkled in the sloping Plaza Catalonia. Under the plane trees the boulevards were silent except for the clop-clop of cavalry patrols making their rounds and the sudden roar of an armored...