Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...queer pinched mother who hated him so much that she did not hesitate to tell the servants that he was dirty, sullen and a liar. She terrified Poil de Carotte, who had come to her late in life and unwanted, widening the breach between her and her silent husband. The child was thin, big-eyed, hopelessly sensitive. The ecstasies of childhood, as well as its cruel injustices, its disappointments and aching loneliness, seized him with unusual violence. Brightest moment in Poil de Carotte's summer vacation from boarding school comes when he goes to visit his uncle, who lets...
...Author is almost a legendary figure even at Cambridge, where he has been Professor of Latin, Fellow of Trinity since 1911. Conventional, silent, learned, a recluse, he has made few and brief appearances in public. Around such academic figures there always spring up apocryphal tales. After a better-than-ordinary dinner Housman is reported to have made this speech: "Cambridge has seen some strange sights. It has seen the poet Wordsworth drunk, and the philosopher Person sober. Tonight it sees a better poet than Person and a better philosopher than Wordsworth, neither drunk nor sober, but just betwixt-and-between...
...theme of each mayor was the same: municipal credit with local banks was exhausted. Default on municipal securities loomed.∙ Taxpayers were on a silent strike. The cost of unemployment relief continued to soar. Jobs and salaries had been cut and cut again and still the municipal budget would not stay balanced for a week at a time...
...certain functions of the old Aero Club, has continued administration of the trophy. Last week the award committee, chairmanned by F. Trubee Davison, announced its choice for 1932. a year not notable for spectacular achievement, as 1933 will be for 40% increase of airline speeds, for development of a "silent" transport plane (Curtiss Condor) and possible perfection of blind landing facilities. The committee might have considered the Curtiss company's production of a compact fighting plane to be carried aboard Navy airships. Or any of several companies for perfection of a controllable-pitch propeller. Or the Department of Commerce...
...Feckless Dinner-Party," a gro- tesque parable of how a sophisticated group of diners were led astray by the butler ("Toomes") into the dark, silent cellars, the broken conversational lines may remind the reader of de la Mare's famed relation, Robert Browning, but the theme and its unraveling are very delaMare. "Thus Her Tale" tells of a suicide's ghost that still haunts her undiscovered bones, hidden in a thicket. In "The Owl," a baker's wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze...