Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harold Lloyd in his second talkie, now showing at the Uptown theatre, has escaped the clutches of the Chinese who afforded him so few breathing spells in his first effort, and has returned to the human fly stunts of "Safety Last," his most successful silent film. This time the thrills are even more sensational and apparently more daring...
Buffalo Child. Muscular, handsome young Buffalo Child Long Lance (Einiu Pokau Inno Stoan), Blackfoot Indian chief, hero of The Silent Enemy (cinema), completed 5 hr. 20 min. of dual flight instruction at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. Instructors, pilots, students stood with upturned chins one day last fortnight watching Long Lance make his first solo. The chins fell agape as his plane, nose down, roared earthward in a power dive, pulled up and over in a perfectly executed loop. Long Lance climbed back into the sky and the dumfounded watchers heard his motor die to a hiss, saw the ship stall...
Other Noises. With slowspeed propeller and muffled engine, airplane noises will be reduced below the point of oppression. But wire-bracing, gears, cams, valves, engine cowling, various parts of unbraced sheet metal in airplane construction will, by their vibration, for some time keep planes from becoming as silent as mod ern automobiles...
President Hoover kept silent...
...cannot see that the Harvard men were guilty of poor taste. They spoke out honestly and with no little force. Fortunately for the interested spectators the Legionnaires fought back. Bad they remained silent everyone would have been disappointed. But their indignation adds nothing to the weight of their arguments. Cornell...