Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canoe, containing himself and three boys, upset one afternoon on Long Lake. He placed two of the boys on the overturned boat, brought the third within reach of another canoe which had sped to the rescue. Then, exhausted, Lassman sank. The three boys were taken ashore, kept silent...
Also dead, well over a decade ago, is the person whose fanaticism kept intact the $100,000,000 Wendel realty holdings, who turned all his sisters but one into eccentric old maids. The silent, grim old house on Fifth Avenue, lighted by gas and without a telephone, is a monument to John Gottlieb Wendel. He it was who dominated his six sisters, holding all the titles to the Wendel properties in his own name, forbidding them to marry lest the family property be split up. He looked on with approval as they made their own clothes and wore the round...
Manslaughter (Paramount). Thomas Meighan and Leatrice Joy were in a silent picture made from this story. It was a good silent picture by the standards of its time, but its revival as a talkie seems unnecessary. Oldfashioned, stagey, sentimental, it deals heavily with one or two remote social problems and, more immediately, with a young woman who goes to jail for having caused the death of a policeman who was chasing her automobile on his motorcycle. Her conviction is obtained, with patent suffering, by a prosecutor who has fallen in love with her. The absurdities involved in these events...
Beaten at every turn, Senator Hiram Johnson, No. 1 Treaty opponent, refused to surrender. He saw his little band of followers subside in silent discouragement. His own voice went hoarse with overtalk-ing, but he lost none of his valor. Cried he: "I ask no quarter. I know no way to fight for my country except to die for it. ... I will present, god willing, as long as I am able, the inequities and iniquities of this Treaty. I'm going to bat just as hard as I can. Go on with your majority! Put on your cloture...
Lady Doyle stood up. The clairvoyant's eyes moved as though accompanying a person who was approaching her. "He is wearing evening clothes," she murmured. She inclined her head to listen. A silent moment. Her head jerked up. She stared at Lady Doyle, shivered, ran to the widow, whispered...