Word: hush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name is Gifford Pinchot (although the late Senator Boies Penrose once suggested that it be changed to "Pin-shot"). He is Governor of Pennsylvania and he is reading his farewell message. His audience becomes restless as he recounts the departmental doings. Suddenly he switches to "gangs"; there is a hush, followed by a buzz. He says...
...floggers. Governor Walker, too, is a "proud and noble" Klansman. Hence, the reward offers of these two gentlemen may either be taken as gestures of righteous indignation or as a means of diverting suspicion from guilty fellow-Klansmen. Judge R. E. Hardeman of the Toombs circuit did not hush up such a suspicion when he told the press last week: "It is generally known that between 40 and 50 persons attired in official Ku Klux Klan regalia paraded through Lyons shortly before Brown was seized and hurried out of town. Brown himself stated to me that there was absolutely...
...Marshal sat down amid a hush. Bobby is evidently still dear to him, for his head sank upon his breast and he did not look up at first when Marshal Foch rose smilingly to relate an anecdote...
When ticket No. 17,229 fell from the ticket globe no stir was occasioned; but an instant later, amid a deadly hush, the $2,500,000 Grand Prize disc was seen to have rattled down...
There was a hush in the upper chamber as Senator William Cabell Bruce, Democrat, of Maryland, rose to speak. Only Vice President Dawes and Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, who was author and co-author of such controversial measures as the 18th Amendment and the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, were present to listen to him. His words, however, were not hushed;* they were put into the Congressional Record and spread about by the press of the land; and that is what Senator Bruce wanted...