Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amiable ways. Phoebe Foster is quite satisfactory as the quietly domineering aunt, relieved of her nieces in time to scare the leading housemaster with the threat of marrying him, and marrying the other one instead. You won't laugh at this play so much as you'll smile in silent enjoyment, and you'll come out gratefully relaxed...
...front of the High Commissariat Building. Softly he crooned a Turkish song: "I have waited for thee, but thou hast not come." Before a crude, hastily constructed wooden structure, he halted. Above the planking, blackly outlined against the grey dawn, dangled a loose rope. Around the platform stood silent native policemen, Syrian officials. They had gathered to witness the hanging of Mejardich Karayan, the 29-year-old Armenian assassin of U. S. Consul General J. Theodore Marriner (TIME...
...reminiscence written ten years after Pyle's death he described Pyle's summer art classes "working in the spacious and grain-scented rooms'' of the mill studio. "To recall the unceasing soft rush of water as it flowed over the huge, silent wheel beneath us thrills me through." This capacity for simple, lush feeling is one of the qualities which have enabled Wyeth to score even more imaginative knockouts on Christmas book readers than his teacher. In 30 years he has done illustrations for 24 juvenile classics for Scribner's alone, some 500 color paintings...
...Government is not obliged to appeal for obedience, but has the right to impose it. ... We have come to agree with the sage formula of that exceptional captain of Christ, Saint Ignatius de Loyola, who imposed on his disciples silent obedience 'until death.' The task must be accomplished. We must win by our own strength alone...
...gave her small lyric soprano parts at the Charlottenburg Opera. After her accidental discovery of C in altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival of his Ariadne Auf Naxos, Composer Strauss wrote in extra fioriture for her nimble vocal chords...