Word: silents
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dawn last week cold enough to make a man's nostrils stick together, the Albanian coast appeared as a thin line over the sea in the east to a silent row of British battleships approaching Valona. Not far inland, the Greeks were slogging slowly ahead with their mountain warfare through deep snowdrifts. The sea was cold, grey and unusually calm for the Adriatic. Just before sunrise Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham ordered: "Open fire." The big ships belched thunderously and shook...
...flesh, to a mystical spirit. It is suggested that she represents Ireland itself. The author may have meant this or something else, but his drama is as vague and uncrystallized as the moonbeams that flood one of the scenes. Sally O'Neil, pretty, dark veteran of the silent cinema, is the girl unassisted by Playwright Carroll toward any clarity regarding her own or the Irish question...
...this plant-doubling, Aluminum Co. set aside $150,000,000 of its own money, earned 1940's gold medal for silent, voluntary expansion for the Defense program. Its soft-shirted, soft-voiced management took the Revolution in its stride. When a new TVA appropriation came up last summer. Aluminum men, who knew they would need extra kilowatts if Defense lasted, helped the Administration lobby it through Congress. Yet the year's end found even Aluminum, Co. behind on deliveries. Sadly it prepared an advertising campaign for the peacetime customers it wants to keep. The copy: "If you find...
There is the psaga of Psmith ("the p ... is silent as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan"), the fastidious young man who calls everybody "Comrade," and almost alone among Wodehouse fauna has enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in the autumn, sir, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"). In the workaday world Jeeves might seem like an average enough gentleman's gentleman but stacked up beside Bertie Wooster, to whose harebrained Don Quixote he plays a discreet Sancho Panza, Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also...
...Alfred Rosenberg and other extremist Nazis as a substitute for Christmas. Not since the Reformation has Christian feeling in the Reich been more intense. This Christmastide will see millions of Germans quietly celebrating a Christian Christmas. Protestants and Catholics alike will sing that best-beloved of all carols, Silent Night, in the fervent hope that the silent night will be followed by the dawn...