Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concern, the deposition of O'Brien should have challenged the President's responsibility. Here was the largest city in the republic, chained to a political machine hopelessly inefficient and corrupt. Gladstone was no Platonic guardian, but there were limits which his vassals could not pass. Instead, the President was silent, and allowed his lieutenant to engineer a very questionable candidacy which threatened the success of Mr. LaGuardia, behind whom the large part of New York's civilized voters were aligned. Now he is attempting a dignified exit. But he lost a great opportunity to strike a blow for decent municipal...
...been hospitable. The English, said the old men, help one fight and leave the seed of warriors. The witch-doctors had been unable to save poor Sam, but Eph and Roger became chieftains and left the seed. Life was pleasant: Nahuan wine was tasty, honors were plentiful, women were silent and prolific. Roger, however, found everything in this Carribean land maddening to his touch, lukewarm; and Eph yearned for Susannah, for pumpkin pie, for quoyhaugs. They had left, had spent a year in New Orleans, and had shipped for Boston...
...House Plan that makes us think so; it's something much more vital. It was recently announced to a startled world that that same old bell, the bell to which nine generations of sons of Harvard have awakened, is, by presidential decree, henceforth and forever more to be silent--gone forever...
...fifteen feet under water." From Mexico City came word that it would be at least a week before trains could reach the striken city. Meanwhile planes roared out loaded deep with medicines and supplies, and Tampico citizens stolidly fished in the ruins, laying their dead in stiff and silent rows...
Thunder Over Mexico (Upton Sinclair) is a feature length null picture whittled out of the gigantic 243,000-ft. opus which Director Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein made in Mexico over two years ago. In silent form with a musical accompaniment, it investigates a minor miscarriage of social justice on a Mexican hacienda toward the end of the last century. A peon and his fiancee go to their ranch owner for permission to marry. One of the hacendado's guests rapes the girl. The peon strikes her assaulter, then tries with four friends to retrieve the girl from a tower into...