Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy had not prevented my friend, General Nicholas Plastiras, from joining me, I might today be master of Greece." Speculative this statement was, but fact it was that had Italy not given Venizelos timely sanctuary, he would now be in a position similar to that of the two silent generals...
...flagrant violation of international law. In reply to U. S. protests Britain insisted that all these measures were "essential to our existence." Writer Millis: "As long as that plea carried weight with our statesmen and the corresponding plea from Germany did not, the U. S. was unavoidably a silent partner of the Entente." Having permitted the Allies to destroy U. S. trade with the Central Powers, "if we now permitted the Central Powers to destroy our trade with the Allies, we should be risking a real and final economic collapse. No political administration could face that prospect...
...Modesty has always been supposed to add zest to a wooer's conquest . . . but the Sultan was too mighty to fight for his prize. . . . The slave maiden was allowed a scanty choice of fascinating devices. However beautiful she might be, the three silent obeisances that she made as she entered the bridal chamber could not bewitch the master's senses by their eloquence- for the most part he did not notice them, for he was already...
...cinemaddicts whose acquaintance with Les Miserables derives from the silent adaptations made in 1918 and 1927, it may come as a surprise to learn that it is not only a monstrous piece of detective fiction but also the tragedy of a man's struggle with his own fate. It starts when Jean Valjean (Fredric March), represented as a deserving member of the Paris unemployed, is sentenced to the galleys for ten years for stealing a loaf of bread. There he first encounters Javert (Charles Laughton), the police inspector whose morbid fixation on the letter of the law makes...
...sisters were beauties; her little brother was a caution (his most prized possession was a bottle in which he collected his spit). Her father was a butcher, a sensible sort of man; her immense mother had swum the English Channel at 19, had now relapsed into a mountainous and silent character. Velvet was not much to look at but she had her mother's spirit. And Velvet worshiped horses. All she had to ride was Miss Ada, the family's unpleasantly decrepit old pony. When a neighboring farmer's piebald gelding was raffled off because he kept...