Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conservative M. P.'s, conscious that DIGNITY is the sine qua non of a true British Parliament, sat owlishly upon their benches, silent for the most part, but exclaiming murmurously from time to time, "Wring his neck. Hear, hear! Wring his neck. Hear, hear, hear!" Mr. Speaker, as a last resort, adjourned the sitting and departed, but still the panting, tugging, shirt-tearing, tie-mussing, hair-tousling tussle went...
...Arkansas, Representative Hawley in Oregon. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, junketing in Canada, received a call from the White House in a Toronto drug store. Other Senators and Representatives, Republican and Democratic, trooped into the White House to confer with the President, trooped out again nodding their heads in silent approval. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was reached by telephone in England for a long talk with the President...
...garbage wasn't removed"); 2) addressed, as a onetime student, the graduating class at smart Groton School ("I have received letters from men of foremost prominence who have asked me why their garbage is not collected every day"); 3) lunched momentously with President-maker Edward Mandell House, Wilson's "silent partner," at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass...
...troubles of Cinemactress Clara Bow really began when Benjamin P. Schulberg, Paramount's Western managing director of production, then associate producer, signed her to make silent cinemas in 1925. She was then a well-stuffed Brooklyn redhead with a Coney Island character. Two years later, when she had been the incarnation of Author Elinor Glyn's It, she was the most famed cinemactress in the U. S. She had her name made into a big electric sign for her father to hang outside his Brooklyn restaurant...
...Senate's vote, was fairly sure of election against any one but Briand. As a candidate, *** Hennessy looked hopeless. Anti-Briand strategists talked seriously of drafting plump, smiling President Gaston Doumergue for a second term. "Le bon Gastounet" issued no I-do-not-choose but remained as coyly silent as any Coolidge...