Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christopher Sorrell, M.D., has not been the only person to from the life of Captain Stephen Sorrell, M. C. The determined but self-sacrificing character of the British Army officer has won Warwick Deeping the Pulitzer prize. It has supplied Hollywood with material for a good silent film. And now it has given the British picture moguls a fine talking picture...
...improved by Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s skin-deep performance. Colleen Moore appears for the first time since she started a comeback in The Power and the Glory (TIME, Aug. 28). Mousy, pallid, indecisive, she is no longer the pert, starry-eyed actress of 'flapper" roles in silent picture days, when exhibitors voted her the industry's No. 1 box office attraction...
...social engagements. Sometimes I spend two hours or more reading letters before I get up. . . . My wife, who is present, will testify - perhaps angrily - as to the amount of time I give to company affairs. It is really 'Gyp' that should be complaining but they are strangely silent...
...Federation of Teachers, affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. Last week with 1,200 members the local felt strong enough to beard Cleveland's Board of Education with a petition. That brought up the question of whether the Board should recognize the union. With three "ayes," three silent and no "nays" the Board voted to recognize...
Suddenly he found himself hemmed in and surrounded by the black silent ears of innumerable microphones. Irritably he swept the lot of them aside and bellowed viva voce to his people. Only the first few rows could hear him while those in back chatted loudly, sang Fascist hymns. Sharp ears in front heard their leader...