Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordeal of walking behind the casket, upon which now rested the Imperial State Crown brought from the Tower of London told visibly on Edward VIII as he tramped the additional three and one-half miles. At one point London's massed and silent grief for George V was broken by a brief, explosive cheer for Edward VIII. This was instantly chopped short by His Majesty who frowningly jerked his head in the direction of the cheer. As he plodded on. His Majesty began to limp from fatigue. As he forced himself on beside the Dukes of York and Gloucester...
...jerk the Senate investigators roughly back to the present, make their probings a red-hot Senatorial issue. Abruptly revealed was the sharp cleavage between elder statesmen who had known War politics at first hand and younger men who had looked on from the outside. Hitherto the elders had kept silent while the youthful crusaders monopolized front pages with a revision of U. S. history which made those elders out to have been deplorable bunglers, duped by propaganda or impelled by greed. But when ardent young Senator Nye called the Wartime President of the U. S. a liar, the pent...
...electric outboard motor ($35.50, 3 m. p. h.), guaranteed silent...
Died. John ("Handsome Jack") Gilbert, ne Pringle, 38, onetime "great lover" of silent cinema: of a heart attack; in Hollywood. He went to Hollywood in 1915, rose through the ranks of film extras, finally starred in The Big Parade, won a $500,000 contract with MGM. Though he preferred characters that "live, breathe and sweat," fandom worshipped him as Garbo's ardent lover in Flesh and the Devil, Love. A squeaky voice doomed his talkie career, and he faded from public view. At the modest Hollywood funeral were two of his four divorced wives...
...years ago. A $500,000,000 institution at Depression's start, it was in hot water two years later, largely because its clientele and territory resembled those of defunct Bank of United States. In the last three months of 1930 Manufacturers Trust lost 33% of its deposits in silent runs. When Bank of United States finally collapsed, Manufacturers passed the strict clearing house examination, was promptly admitted to that body to restore public confidence...