Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, silent on the matter, probably proposes to conduct the Tennessee development in such a manner that neither school of rugged individualists will be injured. But state socialism, in a form howsoever diluted, cannot be imposed on the American commercial structure without real basic reform. The Farm Relief Bill is a hoary example, but it still serves to illustrate that the importance of this issue is greater than the President seems to appreciate...
...that it was unlikely Sir Esmond would return to Moscow. In the smoky station was gathered the entire foreign diplomatic corps (but not Commissar Litvinov or his British wife, Ivy Low) to bid Sir Esmond and his wife Godspeed. As the train pulled out every hat was raised in silent salute. Up went the Ovey...
...public. Their combined clamor is so deafening that it is hard to tell when one of them is really in earnest. Consequently, in those blue moons when they have something to shout about, a sharp-toothed masterpiece may slip undetected into the gentle reader's fold, cause much silent havoc before the alarm is given. Though Publisher Dutton has sounded no extra-special warning, Solal is such a masterpiece-in-sheep's-clothing. Wolf would be a misnomer: nothing so leonine has come down the pike in many a blue moon...
...Pope then presented the names of his nominees, inquiring in each case, "Quid vobis videtur?" ("How does this seem to you?") The assembled cardinals nodded, doffed their skullcaps in silent assent. This procedure no outsider...
...culmination of centuries' growth of the spirit of self consciousness in the Russian people with the mutiny of the crew of the armored cruiser Prince Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein's "Potemkin," now showing at the Fine Arts Theatre, is a high-strung, example of the possibilities of the silent film. Director Eisenstein's masterful use of highly dramatical material, although artistically well done in parts, is marred by his overlooking some of the fundamentals of photography. While a large part of the greatness of this film rests on the clever use of unusual and striking pictorial effects, its greatest weakness lies...