Word: taciturn
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...this year. Brookes's stubborn ambition to bring the Davis Cup back to Australia had something to do with the tour that gave Crawford and his confreres a chance to play at home against Vines, Gledhill. Van Ryn and Allison last winter. As good-humored as Brookes is taciturn, Crawford commented chipperly when Editor Wallis Merrihew of American Lawn Tennis asked him last spring whether he expected the Davis Cup to go back to the U. S.: "I expect the Davis Cup will go back to Americawhen we take it there on our way to Australia...
...began two weeks later in St. Louis when he pitched the last three innings of a game that caused St. Louis' famed Third Baseman Pepper Martin to remark: "They shouldn't bother to put the home plate down when that guy is working." Stringy, taciturn, a contradiction of the baseball superstition that left-handed pitchers are mentally erratic, it took Pitcher Hubbell a long time to start working at all. Detroit scouts discovered him pitching for a minor league team in Oklahoma in 1924. By 1927 he had advanced so little that Detroit farmed him out with five...
...became great pals. Though Louise was a Manhattanite she found herself quickly at home on the farm, won the approval of the neighbors by her ready backchat and friendly ways. She won more than approval from Guy Crane, a rising young married farmer, and from Simon, Grandpa's taciturn farmhand: but she kept things fairly well under control. To make the plotters show their hand Grandpa pretended to go crazy. Unmasked at last, they were shown the door, and Grandpa and Louise breathed easily again. When Grandpa died, leaving Louise mistress of the farm, Guy had the decency...
Boss of Britain. Sure to dominate many a Conference session, if not eventually the Conference, is that mighty mover behind British Cabinet scenes, lean, taciturn, iron-willed Arthur Neville Chamberlain, son of one of Queen Victoria's greatest Ministers (orchid-boutonnièred "Old Joe"), today Chancellor of his Majesty's Exchequer...
Most interested spectator at President Roosevelt's conference with the Senators was a lean-faced, youngish man of 44 with a mop of dark brown hair just turning grey and deep thoughtful eyes-an economic idealist. Taciturn, he sat and listened most of the time. He was Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture and the official upon whose none-too-husky shoulders falls the job of administering the enormous powers buried deep in the Roosevelt farm bill. In his diffident way he had already given the Senate committee his views on this measure, designed to restore farm purchasing power...