Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...market building fell like a house of cardboard, burst into flames. Water mains burst in the heaving streets. Towers of brownish adobe dust sprang up as buildings tumbled right and left. In six seconds it was all over. All was silent except the groans of the dying, the crackle of the flames...
...exception is so incompetent that criticism of them would be a most unpleasant task. Without further ado, therefore, let us turn back to Mr. Wynn. He goes through the usual musical comedy hokum in his usual Wynning way. The remarkable fact about him is that, while he is never silent, he is never boring. When the lines fail to arouse the audience to excesses of amusement he invents new ones, which perk up even the rather sodden chorus. There are two moments of high glee in the show. In one Mr. Wynn, acting as a soda clerk, exhibits several...
...Silent Witness is a mystery play which mystifies. In addition, it is well-staged, its scenes revolve quickly, and during the courtroom sequence there are moments of good oldtime melodrama. Unlike most of the recent Shubert importations, The Silent Witness has a plausible script, thanks to the doctorings of Director Harry Wagstaff Gribble...
...Reinhardt to give him a part in The Miracle. In 1921 he started to make movies in Berlin?The Hunchback & The Dancer, The Janus' Head, Nosferatu. In 1925 he surprised the world with The Last Laugh, about a doorman in a big hotel, by many considered the best silent cinema ever filmed. A year later he made Faust, then went to Hollywood where he directed Janet Gaynor in Sunrise and Four Devils...
...Federal Council's committee divided on the question of how Birth Control should be practiced, whether by the use of contraceptives or by abstinence. On this subject, apart from the Catholic viewpoint, Christian opinion is not united. The "Scriptures and the ecumenical councils of the Christian Church are silent." Even the medical profession is not unanimous. "Guidance should be sought from the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life," said the Federal Councillors. But, "whatever the final conclusion may be," the Councillors were "strongly of the opinion that the Church should not seek to impose its point of view...