Word: taciturn
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While all this was going on, Prisoner Hauptmann managed to steal a pewter spoon from his food tray, flatten its bowl, grind it razor-sharp, make a hooked scalpel of its handle. His jailers thought the taciturn German had planned to cut his throat or wrists one night, bleed to death, close the case in his own fashion...
...world's economists held their breath. By last week Sweden was so solvent that it moved to redeem the last $13,000,000 of a $30,000,000 bond issue marketed in the U. S. in 1924 and not due until 1954. For the first time taciturn Swedish officialdom, through the National Debt Office, gave credit to the managed currency system. Last week some economists agreed with the Debt Office while others were not so certain...
...began making books in New York in 1906. In 1908 he joined the "Mets" (Metropolitan Turf Association), a bookmakers' union which disbanded when betting was outlawed in New York. He usually rides in an open Rolls Royce. His stool is No. 1 in the bookmakers' line. Indefatigable, taciturn, phenomenally quick at mental arithmetic, "Long Tom" Shaw is considered so shrewd that his confreres often station their assistants near his slate to observe his odds. When they cannot get in close, they watch from a distance with field glasses...
...years ago he came from Kakisalmi, Finland to Ontario, where he is a carpenter in the Frood Mine, at Sudbury. When he finished second last year in the Boston Marathon-hardest and oldest (37 years) in the U. S.- Komonen was asked if he would try again. Aloof and taciturn, he answered "Rata auki!" ("Clear the track!"). Last summer he won marathons at Washington and Toronto. Last week, before returning to the mine at Sudbury, he received a marathon winner's usual reward: a medal and a laurel wreath-presented to him by Boston's Mayor Frederick...
...ended he instinctively turned to brokerage and banking for a livelihood. George Fisher Baker got his inspiration from his Uncle John who spent his time lolling on a piazza. Uncle John, it seemed, lived on "interest money." And George F. Baker became the richest, most powerful and most taciturn commercial banker in U. S. history. No other large financial institution in the U. S. could show a record for consistent money-making to match that of the fabulous Baker bank - Manhattan's First National. In financial stature George F. Baker with his sideburns and fedora towered beside his great...