Word: taciturnly
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...from San Francisco climbed a brand new Sikorsky S-42B flying boat named the Pan American Clipper after the sister ship which made the tests on the central Pacific service. In command as always when Pan American starts a new project was its taciturn senior pilot, Captain Edwin C. Musick. With a six-man crew he buzzed uneventfully to Honolulu, slowing down to let Amelia Earhart pass undisturbed. From Honolulu, few days after Miss Earhart crashed (TIME. March 29), Capt. Musick again soared into the sky. this time turned southwest and faced the world's most ticklish navigation problem...
...newshawks or Secretary Morgenthau had expected to find the old man in a mellow mood on laying down his duties, they received a rude surprise. Taciturn Chief Moran's mood was black and rueful. A reporter asked if his recent absence from duty was due to sickness...
...never to take a vacation but fills British newspapers all summer with personal publicity about his "Belisha Beacon" and other traffic gadgets (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), was rewarded by promotion of his Ministry of Transport from sub-Cabinet to full Cabinet status. Minister of Agriculture, Walter Elliott, the tall, taciturn, sagacious Scot who has long been considered one of the Conservative Party's ablest younger men, was shelved by giving him the sinecure Secretary of State for Scotland, and the Prime Minister made his especial favorite at the Treasury, Civil Servant William Shepherd Morrison the new Minister of Agriculture...
Stringy and taciturn, long-faced and lugubrious, Oklahoma's Carl Hubbell is no iron man. In the past summer, far from appearing in every game, he has appeared in a mere 42. To students of pitching, however, the 42 might well be worth all of Gehrig's 1,800. Almost every one has been a pitching masterpiece. In Pitcher Hubbell's proudest record there is less than one game for every 100 of First-Baseman Gehrig's, but the record is not, on that account, the less impressive. In the long history of organized baseball, until...
...ISLANDS-Gerald Warner Brace- Putnam ($2.50). Readable biographic novel of a seafaring Maine lad whom a wealthy Boston spinster adopts, polishes, pushes through Harvard and almost into an unfortunate marriage. Author Brace does not quite succeed in making his taciturn hero as appealing as the more articulate, minor characters...