Word: hushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still-born before an expectant world. Bred to thunder forth the fame of wounded heroes stricken on the field of glory, poor Ooo-Rah never wheezed a note. No single "Ooo" nor yet a "Rah" did Ooo-Rah bellow out in signal of a lusty birth. One long protracted hush proclaimed before an anxious multitude that Ooo-Rah's birth was also Ooo-Rah's death. So let him lie and rest in everlasting peace. And may this simple tribute long endure, a monument eternal to our sad abortion, little...
...still rather hard to imagine a moving picture house with a foyer that is strikingly similar to the great vestibule in the Grand Opera House in Paris, For here are the great marble pillars, the elegant promenoirs, the imposing balconies, and only the huge double staircase is lacking. The hush that pervades this, sacred place, is something between that of Napoleon's Tomb and Westminster Abbey. Patrons tiptoe incessantly up and down the heavy rugs in the corridors, looking strangely lost. Usually they are. It requires no end of time to find the theatre itself. Easy enough to run into...
...TIME, Dec. 15, LAW) Rajah Sir Hari Singh of Kashmir fell foul of his own indiscretion and of a rascally pack of blackmailers. Having surprised him in Paris, at a moment when he was closeted in a hotel room with a certain Mrs. Robinson, they extracted $750,000 of "hush money" and promptly fell quarreling among themselves as to its disposition. In the course of as noxious a law suit as ever stank before an English judge, they introduced all the facts concerning their Oriental victim's indiscretions. And the British Government, "for the highest reasons of State, caused...
Times have changed, however, and if recent press dispatches are to be credited, Dean Frederick Sheetz Jones has announced the possible erection of an academic skyscraper in the center of Yale campus which will overshadow Nathan Hale and Connecticut and even the hated purlieus of Hush Hall. Shades of Timothy Dwight! How will God-Bless-You Mary ever collect her washing and how will Jerry deliver the Lit and the Oldest College Daily at the twentieth floor? Why by express elevator of course, and the undergraduate of the future will lounge elegantly about in libraries, billiard parlors and sun rooms...
...dormitory authorized by the Yale Corporation started unexpectedly to rise, hard by sacrosanct old Connecticut Hall on the Yale campus, great was the shout that went up (TIME, Nov. 3, Nov. 17). Faculty, alumni, undergraduates blended their voices in the outcry: "Stop it! Tear it down! Hush hall!" Moved, the Corporation ordered that the walls cease to rise. Committees met and met, discussing what was wise and proper to be done. Dr. James R. Angell, Yale's diplomatic chief executive, went hither and thither, explaining, dissuading...