Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right in saying that the stuffed shirts of present day corruption don't mind any verbal formulation that he or I can invent. Neither Nick Butler nor any other sustainer of Monty Norman minds being addressed as venomous serpent or by any other 18th century pejorative, but they run silent from INFORMATION...
Some of the ultra-conservative raise their eye-brows in silent horror at the open frankness of the chastisement...
...natural common sense of Vienna police saved the lives of six prisoners who had been picked up in the streets, sentenced to be hanged "within three hours." Word reached Austria's Christian Socialist President Dr. Wilhelm Miklas, silent at his home all through the days of bloodshed, that the evidence against them was slight. But time was passing. At the end of three hours the policemen turned the clock back, sent out for coffee with whipped cream. Soon up rushed the State's Attorney, waving reprieves like the warden in a melodrama. "Thank...
...they claim to be, they would not be spending such a considerable portion of their waking hours proclaiming their own invincibility; nor would they allow the Japs to get away with the various raw deals which they have handed Russia in the Far East. Instead they would remain discreetly silent, sure that they could give the little yellow men a resounding kick on their posteriors that would speedily propel them back to their native islands...
...into terms of romance should please many a reader, including even Hollywoodland sprites. German Authoress Baum has enough gusto to invest even tinselly happenings with glamour, though her sugary Teutonic melodrama should be taken with a heaping teaspoonful of salt. Donka Morescu, who had been a star of the silent cinema, was just staging a last comeback. Her beauty was at its fullest bloom, her ambition straining at the traces. Donka was happy. Her lover was Oliver Dent, Hollywood's greatest star, at the peak of his career. Until their work separated them their affair was as smooth...