Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wise. The Greater New York Federation of Churches next threw its weight into the movement, and then the New York Board of Trade. The latter appointed a Vigilantes Committee of 20, announced that it had been spying on City Hall for the past year. The Roman Catholic Church remained silent. In the absence of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, a spokesman said: "The business of the Catholic Church is saving souls and not meddling in politics. . . . It would appear that the current allegations are solely political...
...Russia; Robert Paine Scripps, president of Scripps-Howard newspapers who demanded a shorter workweek, a wider distribution of wealth; Frank Murphy, red-headed Mayor of Detroit, whose description of his city's $2,000,000 per month Unemployment relief brought forth great cheers. Present at the conference as a silent spectator, was Ohio's Democratic Senator Robert Johns Bulkley, whose friends hope to put him in the White House (TIME...
Wang Lung was the poor son of a poor farmer of Anhwei. When he married a slave girl from the rich house of Hwang he hoped his lot would improve, and it did. Olan was as good a wife as he could have picked: silent, a hard and willing worker, a sturdy producer of children. Fortune smiled on Wang Lung, he bought more land. Then came a year of famine. With himself and his family nearly dead of starvation, Wang Lung decided to go south. In Kiangsu they lived like beggars, but they lived...
...been brought out that there are three main classes protesting. First, there are those who believe that the lack of religion at Harvard makes the erection of a new chapel unnecessary. These men deem Appleton quite adequate for both morning and Sunday services. Secondly, there are those who, silent on the practicality of a new edifice, are opposed to the erection of one in the yard, especially to the building that seemingly will arise there. Thirdly, there is a group which, partially passive as to the chapel question, feels that there are other buildings and other projects on which...
...pieces at the first premonition of the great fight scene. That these excellences are unintentional in no way detracts from the power of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Yet there is pathos in it too, for William Farnum and Thomas Santschi used to put on fistfights in silent pictures that are still famed for their realism. Now both are aging, paunchy men, and their struggle is grotesque, humiliating, feeble. In the end Farnum quits drinking and Little Mary does not die in spite of being hit in the head by a beer schooner when she goes to bring...