Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baron Ponsonby, rising to defend the MacDonald Government, demanded of the Bishop of Durham, 67, and of Lord Newton, 74, whether in 1908 they "denounced the British Government then in power for remaining silent when the report to the Russian Duma gave authentic details of cruelty under the Tsarist Regime? . . . Evidence in the present situation is much more vague and unreliable than in 1908. . . . We have grave suspicions concerning labor conditions in Russia...
These words the Dictator spoke not irresponsibly or to a cheering mob in the open air, but earnestly, gravely to an assemblage of Soviet economic experts in Moscow who nodded their grave, silent approval...
...young engineers working for the Shiffier Bridge Co. came to see him with the idea of getting his backing and setting up in business for them selves. Taller of the two was lanky Howard H. McClintic. Much shorter was Charles D. Marshall. Mr. Mellon heard their case and was silent. Iron and Steel had not yet definitely settled into its corporate departments, the financier reflected. Finally he consented. A company was formed and the new team of McClintic-Marshall entered the business of taking rolled steel from the mills and fabricating it to construction specifications...
...bringing the two colleges together. Developments were as follows: William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, received a telegram from Dr. Kennedy asking for a meeting, but aside from this the message said nothing. No date for the conference was named. Mr. Bingham, moreover, remained silent, except for announcing the news of the receipt of the message...
City Lights is not silent in the strictest sense. Synchronized sound effects and music are used beginning with the very first sequence, where the talkies are burlesqued by horn sounds that make the actors seem to be talking with their mouths full of mush. Also there is an episode where Mr. Chaplin swallows a whistle. Each time he coughs he whistles and he cannot stop coughing. Taxis hurry up and stop, dogs overwhelm him. Hollywood also grew hysterical during a prizefight in which Charlie survives two rounds by dodging so briskly that the referee is always between...