Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographers and cameramen settled down for another wait. Suddenly they spied Chairman John L. Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organization striding, not from the elevator, but down the corridor, accompanied by Philip Murray, head of the C. I. O.'s ten-man peace committee. Calm and silent, Messrs. Lewis & Murray waited for the newsreel men to shift their light and focus, obligingly posed for a hundred stills. Then they, too, vanished into Suite...
Arrested on charges of grand larceny and brought to trial in a Chicago courtroom last week, Defendant Rockwood sat sheepishly silent as Prosecutor C. Vernon Thompson described his unique activities. Until his business slumped last summer, 43-year-old Mr. Rockwood, father of six children, had been a highly respectable wrecking contractor. Hard times set him to stealing and his regular crew asked no questions when he sent them, to dismantle the Diener factory. After moving out safes, typewriters, files and adding machines from the office and $30,000 worth of machinery from the plant, they proceeded on Mr. Rockwood...
...small, dapper wife, between the President and the Field Marshal. Though urged, he declined to make a speech. Even when Finland's Premier, Dr. Kivimaki, addressing the great audience, presented him with a laurel wreath symbolic of an entire nation's debt, he remained firmly and shyly silent. It was only later, at a banquet given by intimate friends, that he tried to express his gratitude. As he stood up, however, emotion overcame him. Dumbly, the fierce-faced old man clasped his wife in his arms, expressed in a long embrace feelings he could not utter...
...wrong, learns that Hawes had been obscurely responsible for his previous decline, tells him contemptuously that only men can sing. Treating bluntly a theme that was almost too delicate for Proust, Author Cain brings his story to a violent conclusion, with Hawes and Juana both dead, the singer silent again. But Howard no longer thinks of his own tragedy, broods instead on the ruin he caused a girl who knew more about him than he knew about himself...
Wednesday evening, December 15, the Eliot House Dramatic Club will present its play "The Silent Woman," by Ben Jonson in the House dining room, at 8 o'clock...