Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, while other politicians remained silent in dumb perplexity, Mr. David Lloyd George erupted into safe and pious words. To the Congregationalist Council at Bournemouth (see p. 60) he thundered...
...Unholy Three (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When released as a silent picture in 1923, this film had a quality of strained and macabre horror which was largely dependent on the fact that none of the participants in its gruesome goings-on was able to make himself heard. No voice, it was well understood, could be so wheedling as the voice which one imagined would be used by Mrs. O'Grady, the keeper of a petshop, who was really a man and the leader of a band of thieves. Her grandson, whom customers observed cuddled up in a perambulator, was really...
...cars when her copy is nearly due. Mornings at home, her telephones (and her husband's) are disconnected until the day's stint is done. Said she once to an interviewer: "Please don't make me out a prig. I wish you'd think of me as a strong, silent character, but I'm afraid...
...Until lip-readers complained, silent cinemactors were wont to mouth irrelevancies, vulgarities, even Hollywood obscenities before the camera...
After three months deliberation Charles V made a momentous decision. He denounced Protestantism as a sect. He gave adherents six months to recant or be exterminated. Then he rode out of Augsburg, silent and gloomy, only 30 years...