Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henri Cedard. Never to English but occasionally to French correspondents, M. Cedard remarks upon Edward of Wales's curious lack of discrimination in matters of food and Queen Mary's downright stinginess.* Smart and suave, the royal chef knows perfectly how to give satisfaction. Last week there was a silent chorus of Gallic shrugs among London's best chefs when it appeared that the international Silver Jubilee Soup Recipe Competition (TIME, March 18), of which M. Cedard was a judge, had been won by a British Army cook sergeant, honest George Brown of Aldershot...
...score was 3-5 in the third set? match point for Helen Jacobs?with Mrs. Moody serving. In the stands, the capacity crowd of 19,000, many of whom had stood in a queue all night to get a seat, leaned forward, silent as death. It was, they realized, the crucial point of the most exciting match that Wimbledon had ever seen. To understand why it was the most exciting it would have been necessary to know something of what led up to it, to understand, for instance, exactly why two young women from California who, if they had wanted...
...schoolmistress, a cocotte and a chestnut seller, singing Paris in Spring. There is also a turntable upheld by living statuary on which she sings something about jealousy. Cinemagoers with sharp eyes and good memories may look twice at the cafe's taxi-starter: Jack Mulhall, star of silent days...
...addition to old films, the library, first of its kind in the world, will contain books on the cinema, a collection of "stills," a library of musical scores for silent pictures. It will contain no films less than two years old. To get prints of famed old-time films, the library's scouts last spring ransacked vaults of old film companies, country theatres, disused warehouses. A print of The May Irwin-John C. Rice Kiss (1896) was found in a Bronx trash...
...decent people of Clarksville for their acquiescence to such crimes as the framing of Mose. Yet she finds that many who avoided her during the trial congratulate her for her courage after her defeat, discovers among her neighbors many who feel as she does but who shamefacedly keep silent, fearing public opinion far more than they fear the loss of self-respect or the reproach of a troubled conscience...