Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nations and their constitutive individuals. And to that of the development of Science and of the influence of its applications to our habits of life and of thought. They would endeavor to discover how modern civilization could mold itself to man without crushing any of his essential qualities. Their silent meditation would protect the inhabitants of the new city from the mechanical inventions which are dangerous for their body or their mind, from the adulteration of thought as well as food, from the whims of the specialists in education, nutrition, morals, sociology, etc., from all progress inspired...
This was on the Eden side of the Foreign Office, the big bay window in which British Idealism is kept on view. On the Hoare side, where upper lips are kept stiff, there was silent, discreet, professional conviction that Sir Sidney Barton in Addis Ababa is anything but a fool, and that Empire progress has often been swiftest when the British Lion's right paw quite honestly did not know what the left paw was doing. In the City a most unusual rumor was current that the head of one of Britain's "Big Five" banks, normally...
Since His Majesty's Government were not disposed to crack down alone on the Royal Italian Government, British diplomats in Paris tried to get something out of French Premier Pierre Laval. Silent as an Egyptian mummy, the Premier had his official spokesman declare with fine French feeling: "Our heart is with England, but it is equally with Italy...
...unmasked by her Minister of Justice in the act of creating a penal code which had little to do with Justice as that term is understood by Anglo-Saxons. The split between Germany and her penologist guests appeared to them so wide that a majority resolved informally to remain silent and enter no discussion. They noted with upped eyebrows that Dr. Gurtner called explicitly for "severity in the treatment of prisoners so that the punishment may be appropriate to the evil." This German reversion to an eye for an eye & a tooth for a tooth caused Sing Sing Warden Lewis...
Spring Davis, an aged Missouri farmer, loved one of his dogs, Bugle Ann, because her voice soared with a queer, brassy resonance high above the baying of the pack. Davis and his neighbors, plain, silent men, trained dogs for more fashionable hunters, let the hounds race nightly but never killed a fox. When Jacob Terry put up a fence that endangered the dogs, the old men quarreled, but Spring Davis' son nevertheless continued to make love to Jacob Terry's daughter. Bugle Ann disappeared, and Spring Davis, believing that Terry had killed her, shot him and went...