Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Norman Kerry, 60, dashing hero of silent films (The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame); of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. In 1939 Kerry enlisted in the French Foreign Legion under the pseudonym Heinrich van der Kerry of Rotterdam, saw action on the Maginot Line, returned to the U.S. in 1941 after the fall of France...
...creative power," said Historian Oswald (The Decline of the West) Spengler, is "most obvious [in] the taste for the gigantic." If this dictum is true, the moviegoer of recent years has been seeing the sharp decline of the western. Gone is love's old sweet story of strong, silent him and dimity her. In its place the studios are offering enormous spectacles on the wide screen-galumphing travesties of the traditional horse opera-in which the lusty heroes now wrestle biddies as well as baddies, and the heroines are as likely to end up in the bushes...
...British film called Kind Hearts and Coronets, an admiral went down with his flagship, at full salute, unflinching as the waters closed over his beard. It was, of course, a British spoof of the proud Royal Navy, whose tradition of impenetrable reticence earned it the name "Silent Service." Now that the U.S. has become the world's greatest naval power, a certain relaxation of the stiff upper lip is in order. In overstated understatement, H.M.S. Ulysses is trying to show that the Royal Navy had a royal and rugged time of it in World War II-and that anything...
Your article gives belated praise to the Viscount and to the Rolls-Royce Conway and Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire jet engines. But what about the license agreements in the U.S. for eight other British power plants ? . . . Your article does not mention the hundreds of smaller feeder aircraft. It is silent on the many military aircraft that have been supplied in a steady stream to our own R.A.F. and foreign air forces throughout the world...
...cost $6,000,000, stands on 25 acres and is 257 ft. high, topped by a golden statue of the Angel Moroni.† From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. tourists are waved to parking spaces by white-coated attendants, then assembled in groups for a silent tour (no questions until afterward) of the huge building...