Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent tutorial staff is headed by Professor Haring, the Master, with Mr. Buck and Professor Brinton; in Economics Professor Harris, the Senior Tutor, with Professor Mason, Professor Schumpeter and Mr. Sweezy; and in English by the affable Dr. Noyes, Dr. Souers, and Mr. White. Professor Friedrich, who keeps discreetly silent about Herr Hitler, will talk interestingly and instructively about any other aspect of Government, and Mr. Cline, our anthropologist, is particularly helpful when countries like Abyssinia break into the news...
...Maintenance Department spent the day looking for a worthy derrick to lift former Kaiser Wilhelm's statue back on the pedestal so that is can continue its silent exertions. Success, however, refused to rear its happy head...
...pure," but are hybrids which owe their genesis to the blending of several arts. Mr. Brown is right in observing that the modern stage designer leaves little to our imaginations, since "the stage designer's aim is to make the setting an inseparable witness of the scene,' a 'silent character' without which the drama would be incomplete." And Miss Barry states baldly the problem of the movies: ". . . whether it shall remain as now largely a diversion in which mere photography and second-hand theatre play all too large a part, or whether it shall develop fully its unique methods...
...commission merchants. Hamilton's 1,000 workers, most of whom returned to the mill temporarily last month to complete orders on hand, were to be reemployed. But on the fundamental issue which had produced the crisis, open shop v. closed shop, the new owners were last week stonily silent...
...stay for the stage show, you will see New York's idea of things vaudeville. Not least offensive are the Six Rosebuds, a chorus of circus fat ladies who indulge in amorous by-play with midgets. Cardini, a suave and silent magician, is on a higher plane than these. But it would take more than a clever magician to induce us to sit quietly through the antics and old jokes of Milton Berle, the genial master of ceremonies...