Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students with notebooks and clattering herds of bewildered schoolchildren filed into a long exhibition room of the New York Public Library last week. Sprinkled among this crowd was many a Catholic nun, cowled & coiffed. fluttering gently from case to case or resting quietly on the benches to say a silent prayer for J. Pierpont Morgan who in the goodness of his Protestant heart had unlocked his shelves to let them see some of the greatest treasures of their Church...
...Inside the jail] the deputies pleaded with us not to take the prisoners. . . . One fellow dropped down on his knees at once in the aisle, and all the rest of us fellows of the gang all knelt in silent prayer. Then the prayer was broken up when a drunk guy in the gang yelled 'Amen, Brother...
...University or through the courtesy of some interested group has become especially evident. Although it may be true that Nazi propaganda has gone far towards maiming the current cinema in Germany, there are many less recent productions, readily available at slight expense, whose worth goes undisputed. Even the silent films made by such artists as Emil Jannings and Conrad Veidt display a subtlety of touch seldom if ever matched in the Hollywood mill...
...football transcends a noisy display of doubtful enthusiasm on the steps of Widener. To these men who would prefer to give evidence of their support in a less violent form, the Stadium could be thrown open Friday afternoon during the final practice. In the presence even of a silent group of on-lookers the team should find encouragement, and at the same time the necessity for a specially prepared stimulant in the form of a rally would be obviated...
Some day from a studio in the nearby National Museum Building will come another plaster figure to join the silent party. It will be a long-legged model probably dressed in Eleanor Blue and posed to suggest energy, cheer, simplicity. The face, which in the living original is dominated by a generous, tooth-filled mouth, receding chin and warm, humorous eyes, will be indistinguishable from the faces of all the other First Ladies. For Sculptor William H. Egberts of the Smithsonian avoids arguments with friends, relatives and the subjects themselves by giving all the Presidents' wives the face...