Word: taciturn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked the audience to remain seated after the performance. When the curtain rose, a slender, honev-haired girl was discovered at the mercy of international swindlers who coveted a package of letters in her possession. But the swindlers were not to prevail, for soon an amazingly lean, dignified, taciturn gentleman appeared to help the girl. He was Sherlock Holmes, detective. A fantastic seer, he had but to scan the unevenlv shaven cheeks of his friend Dr. Watson to tell him that he had altered the position of his dressing table. Scarcely had he known one lady for five minutes when...
...ensemble, complete from military brushes to overcoat, to the most popular dog in the show, to be decided by public vote. Lord Baltimore, a pekingese. won the outfit. Agents were professionally addressed as pigeon-men, cat-men, fish-men. The pigeon-men traipsed through long rows of cages, following taciturn judges who pointed metal wands at the chosen birds-tumblers, carriers, homers. Ella, a parrot, cried: "When in Childs do as the children do." Pavlova, stork, danced a jig. Socrates, cinnamon bear, ponderously spelled out proverbs with colored blocks: BE GOOD AND YOU'LL BE LONESOME. EARLY...
Chairman? Chairman? As the delegates left Baden-Baden, New York's Jackson Eli Reynolds, though he had served as Chairman of the Conference with brilliant, driving power, was not mentioned as prospective Chairman of the Bank. Taciturn in the extreme with correspondents, he had earned their ire. He would not even give out the text of the Statutes, forced them to get it from Germany's offish Schacht, usually the closest oyster at any conference. Perhaps in irritation the newshawks made little of the fact that Mr. Reynolds went straight from Baden-Baden to Paris for a conference with representatives...
...Cologne on the hurrying Rhine, taciturn agents of Ford Motor Co. signed a contract last week with beaming Burgomaster Adenauer...
...succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam on the blaze, snuffed it out. Grim and taciturn, the Kinley boys glanced up as the explosion took place, then plodded away without looking back...