Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coffee." Georges Carpentier is in it. He has to sing sometimes, but he also puts on a flashy two-round bout with a light heavy named Tony Stabenau which is undoubtedly the best piece of fighting ever done in a revue. Best shot: an old gag from silent pictures in which, after taking a blow on the jaw in a farce bout with a fighter not mentioned on the program, Comedian Joe E. Brown bounces across the ring from one set of ropes to the other as though each set were a catapult...
...jobs quickly, went on the road for a while. After rehearsing for an hour, she stepped into the leading part in High Stakes (1925). As Lou in The Barker, she won fame, a cinema contract and a husband (Norman Foster). Her first pic- ture, For the Love of Alike (silent), did not please her; she gave up the idea of a cinema career until talking pictures came in. Cast with Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (not yet released), she taught him one word of U. S. slang per day, explaining what it meant in French. Her mother, who lives...
President of Majestic Household Utilities is, of course, Bertram James Grigsby slight, silent, leathery-faced chairman of Grigsby-Grunow. Vice president is William Carl Grunow, round-faced, grinning, shouting, cursing president of the radio company. Since they started in 1921 with $37,500 and a desire to "manufacture something," these two men have been "the works." Mr. Grunow is the boss, the plant man. His noisy way of getting things done personifies a factory just as Mr. Grigsby's silent financial maneuvers are typical of a bank. Perhaps Mr. Grigsby's shrewdest move has been sticking with...
...Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick welcoming her as an ally against President Hoover's World Court Plan. He voted against confirming President Hoover's nominee for District of Columbia Commissioner. He started to stir up a Senate vote on Philippine independence which President Hoover does not want. He glared a silent threat at the London Naval Agreement which President Hoover had acclaimed as a peace victory...
...town is like a hospital campus. No street cars break the quiet; no clanging noises disturb the peace. Silent busses slip about the streets. No factory whistles shriek. It is a town of healing, charity, repose...