Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sagging spirit of the underfed B. E. F. appeared during its second parade. Early last week in the shuffling silent line of march from the Washington Monument to the Capitol were 4,701 men, 13 women, 17 children-about one half of the police census of the B. E. F. A drum and two bugles furnished all the music. General Glassford on a motorcycle circulated among the marchers, took the friendly salutes of leaders. Parades, he reasoned, do no harm, use up animal spirits. At the Capitol ranks were broken and the Veterans sprawled about to listen to political speeches...
...President remained silent. At Washington, Secretary Stimson emphatically denied that U. S. representatives had taken any part whatever in the negotiations leading up to the "gentlemen's agreement." (The House of Commons presently heard exactly the opposite from Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain who said "we have been in touch at Lausanne not only with European representatives but with representatives of the United States. . . .") Twenty-four hours after the Lausanne settlement and gentlemen's agreement had been published in full. Chairman Borah of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee said: "We have something yet to learn...
When Washington emptied for Independence Day, 5,000 veterans marched to the silent Capitol, demonstrated on its deserted steps...
...good sense to dig up Harry Leon Wilson's old story, Merton of the Movies. As a play by Marc Connelly & George Kaufman it was the classic of its genre. Now as a talking cinema, under a new title to deceive cinemaddicts who saw it as a silent picture and might not want to see it again, it is still superb entertainment...
...High spots: the end of the plantation scene, with massed slaves singing the chant of their new freedom while a band plays "John Brown's Body"; the short, jazzy cabaret scene; the death of the Voodoo Man, with Baritone Bledsoe groaning "Now, forever my tom-tom will be silent," and the Boy (Tenor Luther King) responding "No! No! Black Man! The tom-tom shall be heard...