Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leather seats of the ponderous Empire furniture. Fifi Vollard does not mind for he has two dining rooms, one to exhibit his furniture and another smaller closet off the kitchen where he is apt to retire and munch raw peaches while would-be purchasers are left alone in a silent house full of pictures...
...five seconds of silence the echo will be taken up by a Harvard bugler ensconced on the topmost rampart of the bowl. When the last faint strain of the echo has been wafted away on the breeze, a one-minute hush will fall over the assembled crowd and a silent tribute paid to those who gave their lives in the Great...
When Henry Ford refused to sign the Automobile Code with the rest of the industry, he did so from the silent fastness of the Michigan woods. When the States of Pennsylvania, Maine and Tennessee announced they would not buy his cars, he remained silent. But now. cracked down on by the U. S. Government, the Master of Dearborn broke his silence with a long and bitter public statement. Excerpts...
...little girls," but this parallel would not be enough to make any cinemaddict mistake the heroine or any of the other characters in the picture for real people. The heroine is a goodie-goodie chorus girl, patterned after the roles Miss Keeler takes in Warner Brothers musicals. A silent gangster (Paul Kelly) with a heart of gold befriends her, falls in love with her, loses her bravely to a suave crooner (Russ Columbo). The plot's conventionality is really an advantage because it is unobtrusive framework for pleasant songs by Columbo, Cummings and Frances Williams, dances by the chorus...
...opened, the Jones head appeared, the Jones finger beckoned. In filed the newshawks. Reading from scrawled notes, Mr. Jones apprised the U. S. that beginning that day R. F. C. would pay U. S. gold miners $31.36 an ounce for their output. Mr. Acheson and Mr. Morgenthau listened in silent approval. The newshawks dashed for telephones...