Word: taciturn
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...leader on the Western Front is a blond, blue-eyed, Westphalian farmer's son, Captain Albert Kost. No career officer like Colonel von Wedel, he has been a Nazi politician for many years, at 45 is a member of Hitler's submissive Reichstag. Taciturn, quiet, heavy-featured, Captain Kost is an ardent Catholic with five children...
Laurence Olivier is surly, taciturn, Byronic Maxim de Winter, the master of Manderley. Surprise of the picture is Joan Fontaine, who plays the second Mrs. de Winter with a shy, overeager, childlike charm suggestive of Selznick's Swedish star, Ingrid Bergman. Judith Anderson is the housekeeper who worshiped the first Mrs. de Winter, hates the second. She stalks about as impassive and implacable as a Cornwall druidess...
Soon Artist Chapin got so absorbed in spare, taciturn, unschooled Emmet, George and Ella Marvin that he stopped painting cubist arrangement of rocks, scaffolding and apple trees, became instead a limner of the U. S. scene long before it became the popular thing. The suspicious Marvins would not pose at first, thawed when he worked with them in the fields, helped round up the pigs. For five years he stirred from the farm no more than the Marvins did, sketched them ploughing, foxhunting, planting potatoes, sharpening a scythe, clustered round their old iron kitchen range. The paintings that resulted...
Appointed by Governor Bottolfsen to succeed Idaho's Borah (for eleven months) was solid, taciturn 66-year-old John W. Thomas, banker, Republican wheelhorse, U. S. Senator from 1928 through 1932, when New Dealing James P. Pope defeated...
...French High Command, normally taciturn, last week authorized an extended commentary which contained both a major boast and a major threat. It said...