Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debonair that autumn; he has been an actor ever since. His resemblance to John Barrymore helped him in Hollywood; his first really important picture was The Royal Family of Broadway. In Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde he writhed and gibbered in a role that John Barrymore created in a silent picture ten years before. His real name is Frederick Bickel. He had to change; it rhymed with pickle...
...California, an insolvent company deeply entrenched in the rich Pacific Coast gasoline market. The bidding has been between Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. and Standard Oil Co. of California, with Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service Co. (a big Richfield stockholder) sitting ominously silent at the table. Bid No. 1 was last June when Consolidated offered $18,000,000 in securities. Standard offered $17,000,000, believing the greater popularity of its securities made the bid more attractive. Then in July the Consolidated offer was boosted to $22,250,000. Standard raised that $250,000. Last...
...pink of condition, striding along unwearied after spanning the length of the British Isles on foot, mostly in the teeth of wind-whipped rains. One Scottish detachment had a bagpiper who mournfully skirled the subversive "Internationale." Miners from the boarded-up coal pits of Wales, shipwrights from the silent Tyneside, locked-out weavers from the Midlands arrived with some show of spunk and morale, but the weak & weary contingent from Henry Ford's plant at Dagenham (now working at a fraction of capacity) were a disgrace to their comrades. Exhorted to parade around Hyde Park, they squatted down as soon...
...ambitious concentrator in English there is probably no more lamentable departmental weakness than that long inherent in the treatment of dramatic literature. Emphasis is placed on private silent reading of plays, even though, except for closet drama, such a method of study can hardly do full justice to the works or give the student a complete appreciation of the playwright's art. Unfortunately, the more satisfactory systems of dramatic study, reading plays aloud or acting them simply in groups, cannot be officially included in a technique of instruction based on written examinations. The initiative must obviously lie with undergraduates...
Pure Oil. Shell, Consolidated, Texas and Gulf. White Eagle and Magnolia, subsidiaries of Socony-Vacuum, fell in line. The directors of the American Petroleum Institute, meeting in Excelsior Springs, Mo., expressed their approval. But the industry's spirit was dampened when Standard of New Jersey remained ominously silent and Standard of Indiana came out with the flat announcement : ''Conditions do not warrant even the present prices. . . . The Indiana company is sincerely desirous of seeing producers receive a satisfactory price for crude. But it is convinced that an advance in the face of present conditions would simply provide...