Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours which Oklawahans will long remember. "It was like war," one of them gasped afterwards. Furious firing from both sides for 15 minutes or so would be followed by a lull, then a fresh outburst. About 11 o'clock in the morning, when the house had been silent longer than usual, a Negro cook was sent in. He returned to say, "They's all dead." The Federal men, unscratched after firing 1,500 rounds of machine-gun bullets, found Fred Barker sprawled with eleven slugs in one shoulder, three in his head. "Ma" Barker lay with a single...
...furnish a high constancy of current flow, eliminate all noise except the minute munchings of the weevils in their microcosms, and the whole was enclosed in a soundproof, rubber-mounted metal case. When a container of wheat free of weevils was substituted for the infested grain, the apparatus remained silent...
...Airflow model, with a more recognizable radiator, continues. An Airstream Chrysler, which is mostly a compromise between the former and the ordinary car, is also available. Both are said to have easier steering, greater roominess, and a more silent transmission. Both models have a now device for easier shifting...
...France things are different. Under sentence of death in Paris last week lay a surly, silent 19-year-old girl named Violette Nozières. Not since 1887, when Jeanne Thomas was executed for burning up her mother in the fireplace, had a Frenchwoman paid the supreme penalty for murder. French juries are notoriously tender with wives who murder their husbands, but Violette Nozières was no wife. A spoiled brat with a fondness for nightclubs and loose living, she succeeded, after many attempts, in poisoning her father, a railway engineer, and her mother. Then she turned...
...scenes shots, many of which came from the cinematographic archives of the nations participating. Proof of the ability of the picture to "speak for itself" is given by the many slashing, booming, gorey minutes during which the e x p e r t commentator, Pedro de Cordoba, remains silent...