Jem Lester;
SHTUM; The Overlook Press (Fiction: Literary) 26.95 ISBN: 9781468314724
Shtum
A CHURCH member kept
shtum for seven days to help raise the roof on a 125-year-old church in Thornaby.
Shhh! Robert keeps silent to raise cash for church roof
Men like our own Stan Smith, Geoff Partridge and Bryan Player were never warned of the danger, yet pledged to stay
shtum.
Nuclear veterans treated with contempt
When the stores introduced those larger models, I kept
shtum because I am a wimp and so many of the commentators who reacted in the media seemed to think they were a great idea.
Big dummies will save us from obesity? Fat chance; Jackie Bird BEHIND THE HEADLINES
If they are as bad as King has calculated then Wallace will not be able to keep
shtum for much longer.
WAGES OF SPIN FEB; Pay day at the end of the month will define where Rangers are heading ... Dave King predicts financial meltdown but Graham Wallace insists the club will not be plunged into administration under his watch
He even had to pay a large sum to one cast member he had insulted to keep him
shtum. Needless to say, a new director is being hired.
You're fired! Drugs don't work for Ghada Abdel Raziq
The Russians have a field day, the US State Department stays resolutely
shtum. Not a word of protest, denial or explanation.
Booted US spy not as big a noodle?
So, for once, l'esprit d'escalier (literally, the spirit of the staircase), stayed
shtum. The expression describes devising a brilliant riposte moments after you've left a room or, in modern terms, finding the word or phrase you struggled over for ages the minute your email wings into cyberspace.
VIEW POINT: MY SHOUT
(23) Back in Toronto, Salsberg expressed his concerns to Tim Buck, who asked him to keep
shtum for the sake of the cause.
Family quarrel: Joe Salsberg, the 'Jewish' question, and Canadian communism
But whileApplehas, as per usual, kept
shtum about the gossip, the news has already caused some retailers to cut the price of their Apple handsets.
Major price cuts announced on iPhone 7 amid launch rumours of new cheaper iPhone X; This is perhaps the cheapest price we've ever seen the iPhone 7
Derren clearly states in his opening few lines that he wants to keep the contents of the Underground Tour a secret, and kindly asks reviewers and bloggers to keep
shtum.
Master of deception; HOW DID DERREN BROWN DO IT? DOMINIC HEWITSON ISN'T GOING TO TRY AND WORK IT OUT..
He clearly takes the view that if you can't think of a nice thing to say, keep
shtum.
It's a media Hexit..
June 10 also sees the launch of three new IRON Press books, including Kitty Fitzgerald's political fable, The Water Thief, and David Bateman's
Shtum, a funny and moving collection of poems based on the writer's experience of life with a stutter.
The book festival with a difference; IRON festivals buck the bookish trend of authors reading from their work in theatres or marquees, as Laura Fraine finds out
That possibility - a Brexit that left us in the single market (as promised by the Tory manifesto), that remainers might have reluctantly come to accept - has been ruled out by Theresa May, and the MPs who might have argued for it have meekly kept
shtum. I understand that to speak out would have taken some courage.
Why this Tory won't be voting for party in election; The party may be riding high in the polls but not all Conservatives still feel at home in the party. Barrister David Hughes gives his view of the the Tories in 2017..
Debbie asks Donna and Ross over their relationship, and they ask her to keep
shtum.
SOAPS