Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubdown and an hour's rest before delivering his major speech. The pack at Worcester knocked down a trolley pole and five people were injured, but the least enthusiastic hour of the tour was when Franklin Roosevelt drove down to board his train between lanes of silent curiosity-seekers...
Since there are approximately 1470 men enrolled in the Law School, the Phillips Brook's poll, representing a mere 670 men is too small to be really accurate. Must one conclude that the silent three-fifths will also vote for the democratic candidate particularly after most of the important men on the faculty have declared their intention to support Governor Landon...
Nominee Roosevelt stated the first half of his thesis most eloquently in Chicago's Stadium when, on the platform from which he delivered his 1932 acceptance speech, he cried: "Four years ago . . . I came to a Chicago fighting with its back to the wall-factories closed, markets silent, banks shaky, ships and trains empty. Today those factories sing the song of industry, markets hum with bustling movement, banks are secure, ships and trains are running full. Once again it is Chicago as Carl Sandburg saw it, 'the city of the big shoulders,' the city that smiles...
...mist burned off enough to give the tourists a view, then headed north up the Hudson River. Over Yonkers at 8:53 a. m. the passengers heard cries from school yards where teachers delayed classes. At Sing Sing, the New York Times reported, "the ship had a different and silent greeting from convicts in the yard." At the Danbury Fair, barkers, fan dancers and blooded cattle paused to stare with their Connecticut patrons. The dirigible arrived at Boston about noon, circled the city, headed south again toward New York City. Over Long Island Sound happy Captain Ernst Lehmann sat down...
...magazine stories and Author Williams was sent to locate him by the Sunday World's editor, who hired O. Henry to write a story a week, for $100 apiece. Then about 40, 0. Henry was heavyset, thick-featured, brown-haired, courteous, extremely reserved about his past and generally silent in company. Author Williams had known him for years before he learned that the short-story writer had served a prison term in Ohio for embezzling a bank. The short-story writer and the cub reporter quickly became friends, with Williams showing O. Henry the city, standing with...