Word: taciturnity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
MURDER FOR BREAKFAST-Peter Hunt -Vanguard ($2). Miller happens to be Chief of Police in a small Connecticut town but speedily gets out of his depth when murder is dinned into his ears. In the baffling hospital-residence of a taciturn, suspicious doctor his common sense is his only piece of equipment. But he uses it effectively even when he is on the point of being the third victim...
Inconspicuous, taciturn about his marital affairs, Blue Boy has left a model for many a cinemactor from whom he was protected in life (except for Will Rogers) by a four-foot fence of substantial construction. He never wangled a city deal or produced a strip...
Hard, hot-eyed, taciturn Eugene Chen looks like Nikolai Lenin disguised as Rudyard Kipling. He was born in British Trinidad, got his start at the London bar and according to his many Chinese enemies "cannot speak or write Chinese...
When Seton Porter sensed the groundswell of Repeal, things began to hum. One wintry day in 1932 he called up Henry Mason Day, the big, grizzled, taciturn partner of Redmond & Co. who loyally went to jail with his good friend Harry Ford Sinclair for jury-shadowing. Mr. Day picked up one of the seven telephones on his desk and listened to Mr. Porter's suggestion that National Distillers, aside from the dynamite of Repeal, was a pretty good thing at around $16 per share. Mr. Day cocked an eye at the ebony elephant on his desk. Mr. Porter needed...