Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, was born in Indiana and adored Velasquez. His pointed beard and the Bohemian elegance of his clothes assisted his talent in making him the most popular teacher of his time. In the early 1900s, one of his favorite pupils was a spindly, silent young Philadelphian named Charles Sheeler. On seeing many a Sheeler sketch, the master would drop his beribboned eyeglasses and cry, "Don't touch it!", meaning that deliberation was bad for brilliance. If Charles Sheeler has proved anything in the past 40 years it is that his teacher was wrong...
...Franklin Roosevelt's reception at Carlin, Nev. which Senator Pat McCarran turned into a rally for himself. To Senator McCarran, too, another anti-Court plan man, the President gave the silent treatment. But the crowd saw smiling Pat McCarran beside the President and cheered him loudly, shouted for him to speak. "It's nice to see you," grinned happy Pat McCarran. Later the President publicly thanked him for several Nevada trout...
...favorite librettist, von Hofmannsthal, had been a Jew, but agreed to let bygones be bygones if he would abjure Jewish librettists in the future. Promptly Composer Strauss got himself another Jewish librettist, Austrian-born Dramatist Stefan Zweig, and started work on a new opera called Die Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman...
...meetings; keeps no complete membership lists. It claims-although it negates many Christian teachings-that it works in the framework of the churches. It has also the framework of a publishing business-seven Unity magazines* have 2,000,000 paying subscribers. The department of absent treatment, called Society of Silent Unity, has a staff of over 60 constantly praying people, to whom believers may write, wire or telephone at any time and have prayers said in their behalf. A love offering is expected from those who benefit...
...Ohio Debating League, was cut out for trouble. Not entirely given over to girlish recollections, My Sister Eileen is weakest when it approaches slapstick, as in accounts of Father McKenney's washing-machine business; funniest when Author McKenney recalls the simpler sides of old Ohio life-newspaper serials, silent movies, road shows, music lessons, the tangled plots and intrigues that flourished in girls' camps and high schools...