Word: tacit
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...Republican glee overlooks two things. The first and most obvious is that La Follette, Johnson, and Borah have agreed to no tacit truce as the eastern democrats seem to have done. And the several western Democrats led by Walsh, will undoubtedly join the Insurgents in an assault on the aluminum trust and an effort at a definite farm relief bill...
...General Wood's superiors in the War Department although not officially taking cognizance of this appeal doubtless gave their tacit approval...
...assume that the drama is recognized as an invaluable adjunct to society and such an assumption is a tacit admission of the importance of the actor. For without the actor there can be no play. And without capable interpretation by the actor the play loses its effect, and, thereby, whatever justification it had for its existence. And capable interpretation, just like playwriting, is partly a matter of genius, and partly a matter of training. The numerous schools of acting now existent in New York are a distinct admission of this fact by a supercilious Broadway which has scoffed at college...
...espouses a lost cause fearlessly, if not with pleasure. It does not matter to him whether he opposes or supports any party or any group. His mind may be curious in its functionings, but it is honest, honest above all others in the Senate. That is the tacit and sometimes spoken opinion which his colleagues have formed of him and doubtless it is the most reliable. So they let him stand in a place apart and he does as he wills without criticism from his fellows in the Republican Party...
...interdormitory record. On the fifth landing he gained a certain victory by throwing the remaining bags out of the window to a team-mate below. These weekly competitions of the laundries are limited to no sect or nationality, and are run on a pure sporting basis. By tacit agreement the laundry bags are the lawful prize of the first comer. When the scramble through the entries begins, early of a Monday morning, somehow one feels that wherever his little laundry bag may be going, some kind laundry man will be good...