Word: taciturn
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Four middle-aged spinsters lived in a gloomy house; one locked room was haunted. To this unlikely refuge came Katherine, an unwanted sister-in-law, with her baby daughter Mary, because she had nowhere else to go. Phoebe, taciturn bully of the household, hated Katherine because she could not bully her. Milly, the prying gossip and Lucia and Emma, the ineffectual twins kept a frightened neutrality. Katherine soon died, but with her last breath warned the sisters to be kind to Mary, or else?. Sinister old Phoebe transferred her hatred of the mother to the child. The other old maids...
...with Calumet Belricka breaking the wind for Keno behind her. Keno came on just before the last turn and the two raced head & head down the straightaway. Calumet Butler was still a nose ahead as they slid, their heads low, backs flat and steady, under the wire. Grizzled and taciturn, like many a harness driver and many a farmer who saw the race, 62-year-old Richard McMahon, dressed in blue and crimson silk, was hailed to a microphone to voice an opinion on his victory. Said he: "It was my life's ambition to win this race...
...which approaches a corner without actually turning it. Last week the corn pit of the Chicago Board of Trade, slumbering in the doldrums of depression, was stirred to humming life by a squeeze worthy of the late great Benjamin P. ("Old Hutch") Hutchinson himself. Thomas Montgomery Howell, a wiry, taciturn La Salle Street grain broker who is picked by many to fill the big shoes left empty when Arthur William Cutten moved up to Winnipeg (TIME, Jan. 26), was the squeezer. Many a fellow trader, including (according to stoutly denied reports) the Federal Farm Board's brokers, were...
...said the white girl had changed her mind, refused to go with him. When her disappearance was first reported he was arrested and jailed on a charge of selling beer. He said he knew nothing of the girl's fate. Attempts to obtain information from two other taciturn Indians who were held, were equally fruitless. U. S. District Attorney John C. Gung'l went from Phoenix to White River. Friend of Indians, he announced: "It is unfair to condemn the Apache tribe because this brutal killing took place on its reservation...
...everyone present considered a moral victory, Walker immediately asked for a match with Schmeling. In his dressing room, he learned that his first wife, Mrs. Maude Walker had attached $27,800 of his $42,000 share of the receipts, filed papers accusing him of "almost diabolically inhuman" conduct. Sharkey, taciturn before a fight, always feels very free to talk as soon as he can get his gloves off. Not at all ashamed, he said: "Inactivity beat me. . . . I thought I won. . . . He's nobody's mug and much tougher than Schmeling. . . . I'll fight again in August...