Word: hushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hush Money. Justine Johnstone, once a glorified girl of Mr. Ziegfeld's, returns as an actress. It may be stated without reserve that Miss Johnstone is the most beautiful blond leading woman in the land. She is not the best actress, but she is easily good enough for this inconspicuous little crook play. Miss Johnstone plays the fiancee of a young man with a prison record. Practically the entire remainder of the cast is bent upon hurling him back to the gaol. A diamond necklace is stolen and things look pretty sour for him. But he picks the very necklace...
...very affecting speech. The impressive applause came only after a more impressive hush. Then Edward Young Clarke of Atlanta spoke. He announced that the plans for the "master organization" would be ready to submit to the directors of the movement very soon, and that the first unit of the society would be in Atlanta. "After conferring with organizers in all parts of the country," declared Mr. Clarke, "I am convinced that this will be a master organization, and I have been assured that I am working on the right lines for such an organization...
Arrived opposite the forbidding stone gateway of No. 55, the 200 ragamuffins sobered to an expectant hush. The Palais before them once served the exquisite Pompadour as a jeweled setting for dalliance. It provided the doughty Citizen Marat with the four walls and roof necessary even to revolutionaries. There the first and third Napoleons reigned for an hour amid the gaudy trappings of essentially bourgeois kings...
Instantly La Camera quieted to a ringing hush. Cried Mussolini: "We are here to give a judical expression to the will of the Fascist Revolution. . . . Today, Fascismo is the only living force in Italy. . . . All else can be relegated to the museums!" Waving a sheaf of papers he exclaimed: "I have with me laws liquidating the past and establishing the base of Fascist power. ... It shall be for you to vote...
Down in New Haven Coach Skullen Bones' men were tapping each other on the back and going to their rooms, or to anybody else's room where there was enough ice. A pre-war hush pervaded their training camp: you could have heard a bottle drop...