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Word: silents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiction: Scholem Asch's "The Nazarene" is a fine and compelling account of the life of Christ, occasionally marred by the somewhat unnecessary framework. . . . As for Joyce's "Finnegans Wake," we are silent and abashed. Let him who can think of a better category for this experiment in language classify it for himself. . . Lin Yutang's "Moment in Peking" offers a glimpse into the world of a Chinese whose views on himself, life and the Occident have gained him a wide following. Don't take your preconceptions about the novel form with you into this novel. . . There's always John...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Honor roll of swell performances:- John Profit as the silent bum; Helen Schuman in assorted bit parts; Agnes Love, who had the best lines in the show and made the most of them; Hunt Hamill, the suave, cynical, polo-playing hero of a shop-girl's dreams; and finally Richard Whittemore, the death-watch announcer with an appetite...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: Tbe Playgoer | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...longer able to keep silent on Russia's invasion of Finland, the Harvard Student Union will make a decision at tonight's meeting which will shape the future of its policy. It can look no longer to the Soviet with dreamy idealism. Red aggression against a tiny Scandinavian country has snapped the last possible tie with America. To dodge this reality is weakness. If the Student Union is to continue its liberal advance, it must realize that America and Russia have nothing more in common...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...nations, dominions, empires actively engaged in World War II, last week came two additions. Russia, Germany's silent and equivocal partner, having made a jackal's feast off conquered Poland, and having taken advantage of the western conflict to subject the three smaller Baltic countries, ran into armed resistance when she tried the same move on Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 36-to-1 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Frost in a recent interview with the press. Mr. Frost, who is conducting a weekly class at Harvard this year, holds no brief for stereotyped spoon-fed education. He states frankly that for him education is a take-it- or-leave-it affair in which he will "just keep silent, or even lie down on the desk until it is realized that what I want is self-starters, not followers of a set routine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

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