Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, after a long and fruitful investigation of the crime situation, embodied its results in a bill which aims to provide Massachusetts with an effective police force. The bill, supported in a gubernatorial message, met with almost universal approval when it was proposed but the silent opposition of the political hierarchy has summoned its strength against the measure and has succeeded in burying it on the overloaded agenda of the Judiciary Committee...
...this alone would give an unfair impression of the presentation. There is action, hard-riding, good scenery, fast shooting, and here and there a hard right to the jaw. Insofar as "The Last Round-Up" is a step back to the sweeping action and vivid scenery of the silent picture days and away from the courtroom, drawing-room limits that seem to cramp the current crop of talkles, it deserves at least a few words of encouragement...
...squad of native guardsmen. The little brown men waved their rifles, ordered everybody out of the machine. They pushed aside Father Sandino and the Minister of Agriculture. Sandino, his brother and his two generals they hustled into a motor truck. The truck careened out past long rows of silent peasant shacks, past the airport, to the little crossroads of La Reynaga. A few frightened Indians peered from their cabins as the guardsmen prodded four men in polished black puttees to the ground. A machine gun barked in the night. Four corpses sprawled on the ground. A guardsman pumped...
...owned oil fields, in filling stations and for a Banana company. He was back in Nicaragua when Dr. Sacasa and General Jose Maria Moncada set off a Liberal revolution in 1926. A vengeful-looking little man, scarcely five feet tall, part Indian, part Spanish, he talked well, was silent better. He gathered together 800 men and declared war. Sacasa and Moncada agreed to a government compromise, but not Sandino. He dismissed all the married men in his army and went to the hills. He called his favorite mountain El Chipote (The Tough Guy), himself "the wild beast of the mountains...
...actors who insist that something must be done for domestic incompetents now out of jobs, and in its magnanimous provision that the presence of distinguished foreign artists in America will be tolerated, it is a concession to producers who would probably not remain altogether silent at being forced a surrender many of their most effective moneymakers to the cause of national planning...