Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Janet Gaynor, while she has survived with fair success from the silent films, where she made her greatest success, is a victim of the decline in pantomime. Pretty, sentimental, and equipped with an expressive set of gestures, her voice remains the weakest part of her repertoire of talents. Consequently she suffers from the inertia of motion picture directors who go the path of least resistance, rely largely on dialogue and consistently fail to develop the vast scope of the camera. The result is a decline in pictorial beauty, dramatic sweep, and imaginative appeal. "Carolina" is more of a step towards...
...From 1929 to 1931 an account known as "B-50" had been operated with the brokerage firm of G. M. P. Murphy & Co. This account belonged to Joseph H. Bagley, vice president of the American Bank Note Co. and to Mr. Brown, a silent partner on a 50-50 basis. When Mr. Bagley died in 1932, Mr. Brown was left residuary legatee of his estate, said to have amounted to not more than...
...unconstitutionally" collected to the drivers who earned it. When the companies offered their unionless drivers 40%, the men did the unprecedented thing of striking. Independent drivers, protesting that they did not want to go on strike against themselves, were manhandled. New York streets became over night uniquely silent and clear...
...stride without being tripped. The story of a runaway boy's adventures among the tramps of the English countryside, the down-&-outers of London, Jack Robinson really has two narrators: the unthinking but observant boy, the almost too reflective man he afterwards becomes. Without these sessions of sad, silent thought, Jack Robinson would be a straightaway racy tale, un hampered by moral or intellectual baggage, in the fine old tradition of Tom Jones itself...
Loud whistling is especially penetrative in offices and class rooms where people are working and should have quiet. Not as a matter of dignity but out of consideration for others we should make it a point to control such exhibitions of inner emotion. These strong, silent Technology men! The Tech...