Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wedge? While Attorney General Mitchell was primed to receive the Prohibition Unit under his wing, predictions were heard that President Hoover would have to use more pressure, unceasing and determined, to induce Congress to act on this legislation. Senator Borah was ominously silent on all the Wickersham recommendations. Senator Norris insisted that they required "a great deal of study." Senator La Follette was already in open opposition. He called the Report a ''wedge being driven into the Constitution." Only such unswerving Drys as Ohio's Senator Fess gave blanket approval...
...face, his trick cane and cigar, amuses those who think that the mock-pompous delivery of big words is funny. He reaches another sense of humor by announcing, before playing the piccolo: "There are only a few of us left." His partner, as usual, is the almost completely silent Paul McCullough, who is impelled by Mr. Clark's incessant talk to bury his head in a desk drawer ("Just getting a breath of fresh air"). These buffoons and Doris Carson, a very personable girl whose adroitness as a tap dancer is marred only by awkward elbows, are the chief...
...silent, however, was Attorney Stanley M. Lazarus, who promptly made good his previous threat of asking for a receivership. Charging that "mismanagement and maladministration" had resulted in "serious and threatening financial difficulties," Mr. Lazarus lamented the fact that Mr. Fox holds voting control, fixed the adjective "socalled" upon the directors. To these claims Fox Attorney Samuel Untermyer declared the action was brought by "a handful of stockholders" and that the corporation was "overwhelmingly solvent...
This book tells how to write for the talkies, incidentally plots out the talkies' field, tells some of their difficulties, predicts some of their triumphs. Say Authors Pitkin & Marston: "The talkie is a new art. It is as distinct from the silent picture as the silent picture is distinct from a stage play." Its limitations are definite. "[The successful talkie] must avoid all explanations, printed or spoken, which involve words beyond the comprehension of an ordinary ten-year-old child...
Traditionally, a Dictator is a strong silent man who never complains. More sensitive than most is His Excellency General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. Marques de Estella, Dictator of Spain...