Word: hush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...physicians it should be remembered that they spend their time among the sick, the wayward, the abnormal of this world. In philosophy their knowledge of our flesh-faults is a heavy balance wheel to the tangents of our loose idealism. As critics of society, they tend to hush the hallelujah chorus, introducing sardonic groans for those imperfections of mankind at which the Chautauqua-shouters, sniffing the electric air of a millennium, flap their coattails. The true earnest of a physician's worth outside his consulting room* is therefore the degree to which he refrains from hollow croaking; the degree...
Three issues "in President Lowell's tenure" were cited as having been handled in hush: intellectual freedom of the faculty, exclusion of Jews and making Harvard "safe for the genteel...
...Baldwin, compact, candid, assured, arose amid a portentous hush. Within five minutes Laborite M.P.'s were no more able to keep still than jumping beans upon a griddle. "Who forced this on you?" they shouted at the Premier. "This means a general election...
...Leroy Cullen of Bloomfield, N. J., missed his hold, dropped under the grinding trucks, was carried to a hospital, where surgeon amputated both legs. Next morning four relatives entered his room and a clear tenor voice was raised, singing "Mother Machree." After the last note there was a hush. Cullen's relatives filed out, lips quivering, grief-stricken. Wondering hospital attendants learned that the deceased, trained in a choir, often sang to his family of an evening, had wished to put his ebbing strength into a song of parting, as the wild swans are said...
...Manhattan theatreful of the East's leading fad-connoisseurs fell into expensive hush, breathlessly hoping that all they had heard from Americanos lately abroad was even partly true. Glad tidings had come from widest sources; from jaded novelists and strong-minded grandmothers, from callow collegians and a onetime U. S. foreign ambassador, who had circulated verses that were but feebly expressive of the ecstasy that called them forth. The evening had even been signalized by a cable from the King of Spain?his thanks in advance for America's "homage to Spanish...