Word: hush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arguments of a post-election whispering campaign have at length become so loud that a mere "Hush!" from those called big-wigs is not enough to silence the speakers. Whatever that hard-gained Smith majority in the Bay State may have signified politically, it gave Governor Fuller, long the Republican Party's second prize publicity artist, a chance to step out to a sizeable lead over his once superior opponent, the vociferous Mr. Goodwin. Working on the sufficient assumption that an officer soon to be emeritus is safe from slings and arrows, the Governor has been chuckling pretty constantly...
...died, "There's two more roads that I'd like to ride." Fireman said, "What could that be?" "The Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe." Mrs. Jones sat on her bed asighing Just received a message that Casey was dying, Said, "Go to bed, children, and hush your crying, 'Cause you've got another papa on the Salt Lake Line...
...Hush, Kinder," the mother murmurs, her voice choked with emotion, "Papa will soon be home. He will surely bring us bread...
...Smith has brought the matter [Prohibition] into the open; he has destroyed the atmosphere of secrecy and insincerity that surrounded it; it cannot again be relegated to the hush-hush closet. From sheer gratitude for this clearing of a most poisonous atmosphere-which the Republican party and Mr. Hoover are both breathing and perpetuating-I shall vote for Mr. Smith...
...secret, hush, hush...