Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dion had come to take her away, and the dances around the coremonial fires and the eating and drinking. Endless dreamy days they had lived together by the side of the pool that mirrored the rising purple peaks and the changing sky. Three days ago a strange silent man had come out of the south, and made signs to Dion from the other side of the pool. That night Dion told her that he must go; she had consented, and he was gone...
...London. Slowly its 17th Century Tower built by lamed Sir Christopher Wren gathered new bells. Slowly the twelve gathered green patinas of verdigris, cracked; the clappers rusted, the machinery clogged. The Tube under the church shook the steeple dangerously. In 1928. after 250 years, the Bow bells fell silent...
...vicissitudes of life have not changed the Vagabond's silent enjoyment in the little things in life. Starlight, cool freshly laundered sheets, a patch of cloud, an ember glowing in the night, a dish heaped high with spaghetti bologiese and the light on the faces of little children, give him a twinge of sweet pain as if he had reawakened some memory of the days when his immortal soul strayed through regions bathed in endless beauty on the journey from the outer spheres. The Vagabond is old in love and the world has taught him to keep...
...bookings United had a waiting list of 60. C¶, Eastern Air Transport (New York -Washington -Atlanta -Miami) collected 7.500 fares last month, the best month it ever had. Last week it stepped its New York-Washington service up to ten round trips daily, every hour on the hour, "silent" Condors on every trip. On every hand was evidence that air transport was at long last reaching the goal which it set in 1927: to get the ordinary, non-adventurous, safety-loving traveller into...
...island. The Wings also discovered a chipper little urchin called Ko-Hai. Ko-Hai was foolish enough (in Lori Bara's little story) to be bitten to death by a shark. After his funeral, Ahmang avenges this mishap by killing the shark with a knife. Samarang is a silent picture, with musical accompaniment. It is pleasing scenically and photographically. In the inevitable fight-between an octopus and a shark-the shark wins. The stagiest shot is the one that was really most dangerous to make-a python coiling around a native who had been directed to yelp when...