Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor. Monday night and Tuesday the royal couple traveled through the pine-shadowed lakes of western Ontario. If it was late at night when the King and Queen passed through a hamlet, crowds that gathered to see the shuttered cars flash by waved their flags, but kept silent lest they disturb King George and Queen Elizabeth's sleep. At White River, "coldest spot in Ontario," the train stopped to service the locomotive. On the snow-sprinkled platform Indians, school children, townspeople hoping against hope that they might glimpse their sovereigns, were overjoyed when Queen Elizabeth, motioning the King...
Pedagogue Daladier was one of the most silent members of the talkative Chamber of Deputies. He did condemn the French occupation of the German Ruhr in 1921-24. He did advocate friendship with the post-War Weimar Republic. He favored, however vaguely, an economic reorganization of Europe. Once he said: "France is now in the hands of a financial oligarchy, from whom power must be wrested and given back to the people...
...maternity hospital, surrounded by an audience of 35 Peruvian doctors, Surgeon Lozada performed a Caesarean section on 70-lb. Lina, brought forth a lusty, six-pound baby boy. But bewildered Lina would have nothing to do with her child, could not comprehend that he belonged to her. Silent and uncommunicative, she lay on her hospital bed fondling a shiny, new doll, fingering with reverence a holy picture pinned on her pillow...
...raise all this money so long as Englishmen remained free to put their investment cash into U. S. securities. Meanwhile, since 1935, Englishmen, fearful of war, had shipped $500,000,000 to the U. S., now have about $1,000,000,000 invested in marketable U. S. securities. Silent pressure has gradually reduced the flow, since first of the year it has subsided. Sir John has bottled up all the potential refugee cash that did not escape before. Only bounders will persist in selling pounds and buying dollars, but the British Government has marvelously effective ways of cracking down...
...economists began discussing the possible consequences of Britain's silent change of economic front...