Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred Emanuel Smith, who vitally reorganized the State government when he was Governor, was one of the first witnesses invited to make suggestions. Putting on his spectacles, unfolding voluminous charts, Citizen Smith proceeded to deliver a 75-min. lecture on civic reconstruction. When he had finished the committee was silent, Tammany Hall aghast, at a masterly exposition of a sweeping reformation...
...presume that both men as they have risen in the world have forgotten this interesting incident--but I, being the sophomore roommate of one of these men, will never forget his consternation and the poignant sense of discouragement. But both men bore their silent grief like gentlemen. W. B. Webster...
...oily villain but his part, like everything else in the story, is cheaply invented and implausible. The only redeeming feature of Call Her Savage is Miss Bow's performance. Looking slightly more blowzy than she did in the days when she played flapper parts in silent cinema, she shows with enthusiastic violence and a flat, tough Brooklyn accent what such flappers can turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted in a café, hurling a plate with one hand and striking a waiter with the other. Confessed Actress Bow when she arrived...
...sung this year are "The First Nool"; "Wassail Song", by Vaughan Williams; "Chanson Joyouse", by F. A. Geraert; "Bring a Torch, Jennette, Isabella", an old French carol harmonized by Nurm; "Christians Song of the 14th Century", by Bodenschatz; "Shepherds Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep", a Besancon carol; "Silent Night, Holy Night"; and "Hallolujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah...
...Rosa, maiden-cruising this week from New York to Seattle, is Mrs. Louise Vallejo D'Emparan, 91, only living daughter of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, prominent in California's Mexi can regime (ended 1846) and founder of Santa Rosa, Calif., whence the ship's name. Strong, silent, homely Film Actor Gary Cooper asked the New York Supreme Court for an injunction restraining Sheffield Farms Co. (dairy products) from further circulation of an advertisement bearing his name and picture. He claimed damage to his reputation because he was represented as drinking milk "to build up his health...