Word: tacitly
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...Imperial Conference of Empire Premiers rose last week after accomplishing little more than to define (TIME, Nov. 15) the well- understood but heretofore tacit interrelation between the Dominions and the Mother Country...
...imply that the remedy is simply to place them in power. Individual critics may make despondent observations, but usually they urge a pet reform to set the world aright. Even cynics of the Mencken variety who see little virtue in mankind alleviate the sting of their sneers by a tacit admission that their circle is not beyond saving...
Meanwhile the only man in Athens who was not greatly flurried by events was old Paul Koundouriotis, recalled to the "Provisional Presidency" of the purely hypothetical "Hellenic Republic" by Dictator Kondylis. Admiral Koundouriotis, 71, has been by tacit consent the ornamental and gentlemanly figurehead of Greece since the departure of King George II from Athens (TIME, Dec. 31, 1923). For a time the hard-boiled adventurers who are exploiting Greece dubbed the Admiral, "Regent." Two years ago he was styled "Provisional President," and during the last few months of the Pangalos regime he was forced to resign and suffered...
...More Women. The audience could only mutter; "There are no such animals," and take its pleasure in Actor Charles Bickford's tacit agreement. He is supposed to be a rufous Wyoming body-snatcher who has never missed his snatch, even including a warm Manhattan divorcee who strolls into Cody dressed for Newport. Something about her is supposed to purify his ardor; he has to return from her bedroom saying he "wouldn't do such." The bedroom is in a dude lodge belonging to two embittered Manhattan males with a shingle over their door, "Damn the Women...
...thousand odd votes from the three thousand delegates present. Whether or not due to the abstention of the Park Avenue church from active controversy, the moderates won, the Baptist church refused to add another division to the atomizing of protestant churches, and the modernists within its walls have tacit consent to continue liberal policies...