Word: taciturn
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Sherriff, 32, dark, slender, taciturn, was an insurance broker. He knew little of playwriting but he said he would try. The only drama he knew was the War. He had enlisted at 17 and emerged a second lieutenant. He sat down and wrote the story of a dugout in which he had lived. The play was produced. Friends said it was good. At their urging he sent it off to the London managers. One by one they turned it down...
...Robert Lampoon, of course. Or so Bob told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The maitre d'hotel and fountain-head of humor for the funny paper on Mt. Auburn Street was warming his hands over a cup of Arthur's coffee and contemplating the prospect of having a birthday. As taciturn as his prototype, President Coolidge, the Lampoon jester forced the reporter to pry his secret from...
President Hipolito Irigoyen of Argentine, a taciturn Socialist who makes no unnecessary public gestures, made a point of meeting the Hoovers at the terminal, thus sharing any danger the visitors might be in, thus trying to efface the national embarrassment felt by Argentina over the plan of some of her naughty children had had to blow Goodwill to smithereens...
Hysterical survivors filled the press with stories of leaking lifeboats, faulty tackle, indifference of officers, mutinous and incompetent crew. Capt. William J. Carey went down with his ship; but those who watched him on the bridge, taciturn, deaf to questions and pleas, wonder why he deferred SOS until 20 hours after danger became apparent...
...almost wished that there was a law providing that an outgoing President and First Lady should be established, by the People they have served, in a setting of suitable richness and proportions for the rest of their days. In the present case, the President will be remembered as the taciturn little man whose Administration was accompanied by unprecedented Prosperity and wry anecdotes such as the following...