Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jobless WPA workers who belong to David Lasser's Workers' Alliance, produced no whiff more deadly than that of Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, retired, who editorialized in his Scripps-Howard column: "It seems to be intimidation of the Legislature by a tiny minority using the silent threat of incipient riot. Their leaders . . . just want to use a lot of hungry and desperate suckers as demonstration puppets and they are more pleased than not when the poor boobs get all bloodied...
Smile on us through the silent night...
...speech affirming her interest in world peace: "Peace abroad depends on peace at home and kindly feeling for one another. . . . Learn to laugh. . . . We owe it to the world to preserve our sense of humor. 'All dictators,'" she quoted Biographer Emil Ludwig, " 'are gloomy and silent.' " No Germans, Russians or Italians being present and Mrs. Hoover being far away, this was greeted with approval...
...this red and blue giant was scheduled to stop for fuel at Fairbanks, Alaska. By week's end it had not reached this far-northern outpost. Approaching the Pole in sub-zero temperature, it had battled tremendous winds and ice. One motor had failed. Then the radio went silent and it eventually became apparent that the ship was down somewhere between the Pole and Alaska. Since six weeks' rations were aboard and there is plenty of room to land on the ice, Russian airmen refused to be worried, set out to search from Russia and from Fairbanks. Into...
Between them, these collaborators tell the story of the Spanish revolution in terms of people rather than in terms of action. Not since the silent French film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, has such dramatic use been made of the human face. As face after face looks out from the screen the picture becomes a sort of portfolio of portraits of the human soul in the presence of disaster and distress. There are the earnest faces of speakers at meetings and in the village talking war, exhorting the defense. There are faces of old women moved from their homes...