Word: taciturnly
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Thus did Koga, a small, taciturn man with an egg-shaped head, pass from the stage. But he left it in a whirl of mystery more impressive than his life...
...many people were close to the taciturn Long Island sportsman. He was not a mixer. Tall, stocky, powerful, rather a mooncalf to look at, he was inclined to be blunt when he spoke at all. There was little feeling in his face: in the hottest moments of violent polo he was deadpan. He seldom took a drink, never smoked. He left a wife, the former Margaret Mellon (niece of the late Andrew), two daughters, Peggy and Louise and twin sons, Thomas and William...
...interviewers have been admitted in recent months to the walnut-paneled office of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick. But last week the tall, testy, taciturn publisher of the Chicago Tribune (circ. 925,000) consented to receive one. The lucky fellow was suave Columnist Marquis W. Childs (circ. 7,500,000), who has succeeded the late Raymond Clapper in 108 newspapers (187 took Clapper). Next day in Chicago's tabloid Daily Times Colonel McCormick could read Childs's bread-&-butter letter. It was a Childs-like appraisal of "one of the major myths of our times...
Raymond Ames Spruance, a taciturn, 57-year-old Hoosier, commands the great fleet which began blasting its way last week into the Marshalls. In the estimate of one of his superiors Spruance is a "coldblooded, fighting fool." It is his carriers, capital ships, cruisers, destroyers which pour the steel into Jap installations, kindling the hot little islands, softening them up for the crawling crocodile fleet of landing boats...
City Editor Lane calls Oxie his dream man. His staff looks on Lane as a dream city editor, who came up the hard way. Unhurried, taciturn (but capable of awesome anger), he often takes on police rewrites between detailing assignments, bats out an Oxie between editions. Some of the staff's oldsters remark that since he quit drinking and became an active churchman Clem Lane has taken on a somewhat pontifical mien. The opposite is apparent in "Oxie O'Rourke...