Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simmonds the two worst features of U. S. air transport are noise and "rumbling." The noise evil has been effectively attacked since his visit; the Curtiss "silent" Condor and the new Douglas Airliner have reduced cabin decibels to approximately the same level as a Pullman...
...Pennsylvania's William Scott Vare when the Senate booted out that squat Republican, Now hardly a day passes without a barrage of dead cats for General Johnson from the Schall office on Capitol Hill. The Senator's outpourings have annoyed and embarrassed his Republican colleagues whose silent strategy is to give NRA all the rope it needs to hang itself. They explain Mr. Schall's blatant behavior on the ground that he fears that Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Olson, identified with the whole Roosevelt program, will oppose him on his next senatorial campaign. Schallisms...
...Marie Falconetti as St. Joan, was released as a silent picture in 1929. People who admired it for Carl Dreyer's direction, Actress Falconetti's performance in a role which gained much of its power from faithfulness to historical fact, were last week pleased that the film was being exhibited again with satisfactory sound accompaniment. The questions & answers of the trial are rendered by Radio Announcer David Ross, a musical score by Massard Kurzhene...
...were stood off with sticks and guns. Some Kentish farmers even dug trenches, remindful of wartime, around the barns in which they kept stock which might be seized. A few boasted that they had strung up electrified barbed wire, shouted, "This is a tithe war!" Infinitely distressed and completely silent was Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. The legal experts of His Majesty's Government assert that ''the tithe is property''-which of course is sacred. Tithe rates (no longer the Biblical tenth of a farmer's produce) run less than $2 per acre...
Though he was only five feet tall, Japanese have long called Marshal Muto their "Silent Giant," thus paying homage to his clam-like taciturnity and titanic will. In Changchun he ruled, as General Hishikari will rule, with the titles of Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army in Manchukuo and Tokumei Zenken Taishi ("The Emperor's Private Ambassador...