Word: taciturn
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...Pilot Holger Hoiriis's native land. Liberty is the name of the little town in New York's Catskills where German-born Otto Hillig, 55, owner of the plane, amassed modest wealth as a summer resort photographer. Now these two were going home in style: the big, taciturn, painfully bashful Dane, and the small, voluble, jocose German with his bald head. Punch-like nose, towering collar and baggy trousers...
Infrequently does taciturn Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin make a public speech. In Moscow one day last week he fairly let himself go, pictured the proletariats of other countries as "watching breathlessly the victories of the Soviet Fatherland...
...horrified," telegraphed George V to Mr. MacDonald, ". . . national disaster . . . serious loss . . . including Lord Thompson, my Air Minister." Among the first to hurry across the channel to the scene was the Prince of Wales. British reporters, besieging Henry Ford on his return from Germany (see p. 18), found him taciturn, truculently unwilling to be interviewed-until they told him about the disaster of which he had not heard. Shocked into conversation Mr. Ford repeated again and again, "Horrible, horrible!" With the nation economically depressed the R-IOI'S loss seemed to strike brutally deep into Britain's present pessimistic...
Managers. Silver-haired Connie Mack, proud, taciturn, scientific, drills his squad at blackboard baseball until they are dizzy. Said he recently: "I hesitated to call these boys one of my greatest teams because they have only won a single world's series. But after the way they've played this year I may as well say I think they're among the best that ever wore a uniform with an elephant...
...first things they noticed was the sense of responsibility with which the oracle approached his task. Here was not the informal, drily amusing Calvin Coolidge of Amherst reunions, where he is content to sit on the ground and idly chat with friends, nor was it the taciturn, retiring inhabitant of the little Northampton law office and the shady new Northampton estate. The Beeches. In returning to his public. Citizen Coolidge brought with him most of the dignity and restraint he had exercised with such success in the White House. Again to the fore were the elevated moral inflection...