Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yellowstone National Park's Splendid Geyser, after 39 years silent digestion of water, steam, rock and heat, last week labored and threw up a 100-ft. spout of steaming water. Daisy Geyser nearby, which has been erupting every 100 min. ever since white men have known it, paused. After a two-hour delay Daisy went to work again. Old Faithful, some distance away, faithfully continued its 65-min. spouting, but small geysers, boiling springs and mudholes nearer the Splendid were drained of their waters. Two park employes posted themselves beside the Splendid to record its behavior...
...Berlin's Friedrichstrasse railway station a great silent crowd saw off the first German Chancellor ever to visit Paris on an official mission.* As the Warsaw-Paris express pulled out a few strident voices called hopefully, "Alles Gute! Gluckliche Reise!" ("Good luck; Pleasant Journey...
Sunday in Wall Street. Through silent, Sunday-deserted Wall Street went the motors of potent men to the Italian castle of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. George L. Harrison, Governor of the Bank, had called an emergency meeting, Acting Secretary of the Treasury-Mills had come over from Washington. They called in Owen D. Young, expert, then Morgan Partner S. Parker Gilbert, expert. Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board was handy at his home in Mount Kisco if needed. No statement was given out during the Wall Street meeting, but reporters hazarded that the questions being...
Syndicalists did best in Barcelona, where they claim a strength of 300.000 and the silent support of Catalonia's "President," Francisco Macia. More than 700 telephone operators left their desks. Lewis J. Proctor, U. S. manager of Telefonica, was severely beaten as he tried to leave his office. Dock workers went out in a sympathy strike, so did employes of the gas works. The Government rushed destroyers and a squadron of airplanes up from Cartagena to maintain order...
...Manhattan stage, able to give her baldest line the glitter of an epigram. Her first venture in Hollywood was an undistinguished effort for Pathe called The Awful Truth. Her next was a marriage with John Gilbert which resulted in such frantic publicity for the last celebrated lover of the silent cinema that it made Actress Claire look a little foolish. Her contract with Pathé abruptly terminated. Actress Claire was signed by Paramount and given an opportunity to star in one of the best pictures of 1930, The Royal Family. Last winter she accepted a five-year contract with Samuel...