Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beach of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams' Cohasset, Mass. estate, Coast Guardsmen last week surprised rum-runners landing 600 cases of liquor worth $150,000. Some of the smugglers escaped into the surrounding marshes, some made out to sea in a swift, silent electric launch...
...snowed under by 214 Kemalist votes, but on thinking the whole matter over Dictator Kemal must have wondered whether the idea of even a ten-deputy opposition was such a good one after all. In Turkey the will of the dictator is communicated by means wondrous, swift and silent. Those who cross it are sometimes found hanged to their own doorposts at dawn. Bright and early on the morn after the vote, Leader Fethi called upon "The Modernizer," informed him that overnight the opposition party had dissolved...
Made In France. It would be pleasant to record that Lya De Putti, the small luscious lady with the heart-shaped mouth who played opposite Emil Jannings in Variety, is as complete a success on the comedy stage as she was in the silent cinema. But this would be untrue. The scene of Made In France is laid in a chateau which a group of Americans have rented and in which the husband and suitors of the two ladies in the party were billeted during the War. One gathers that the gentlemen were active back-area cutups for when Miss...
...background for the love affair of a private soldier and a vaudeville star who has seen better days?yet its often mechanical sequences are brought to life by Director Josef von Sternberg. Always aware that a moving picture ought to move, von Sternberg tells the story rapidly and often silently, so that Morocco has the effect of being a silent picture into which dialog has been woven, not the "incidental dialog" of the primitive, remade silent pictures, but incisive, necessary words, labelling and shaping the main currents of the plot. Marlene Dietrich talks with hardly a trace of accent...
...Evanston, Ill., Mrs. John A. McPherson stopped her automobile alongside a parked car. Patrolman Henry Miller asked her politely if she did not know it was unlawful to park double. She did not reply. He asked her, more heatedly each time as she remained silent: 1) Who she thought she was? 2) If she thought she could "get away with it because she was a woman" or "because she might have influence?" 3) If she knew what the penalty was? 4) If she would like to explain her silence to the judge? Suddenly she spoke: "I'm Mrs. John...