Word: hushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Gaby, in our humble opinion, takes first place among the comedians of the show with flying honors. The way he says, "Hush! Hush!" is great. And he proves himself before the end of the performance to be no less skillful as a ventriloquist. George Jessel also manages to be a mirth-provoker; when he takes his place with "mommer" in a prominent box and translates a French comedy first into English, and then into Russian for his mother's benefit, he is at his best. Then there is George Hassell. Wherever these three act, the most ordinary piece...
Suddenly there was a hush, someone was speaking from the stage; yet another speaker fired the air with words of Communism. Then, up spoke Bukharin, aflame with the fire of a new Russia, and announced that a humble working family by the name of Aneyniev, had received permission from the Woman's Communist Department to hold a first public civil christening of their little daughter before the Congress...
...Count returned to his manor to find himself an exponent of the Bourgeois and not the king's trusted servant. Greatly enraged though he was, he could only resign his commission and try to hush the matter. His wife takes his hard. Pinteau, however, is not so fortunate. His bride-to-be refused to marry him, when she learned that he was not the Count. Thus, the Count did not get to Paris for long, and his secretary lost a bride...
...married Princess Nazli on May 24, 1919. He is a man of large stature; handsome after the manner of Egyptians; inordinately proud of a mature Kaiser moustache; of considerable intelligence, but with pronounced leanings to despotism, believing that his subjects should heed the Spanish proverb: "With King and Inquisition . . . hush...
...wait of two triple-space minutes while the announcer winds his watch. Then he steps forward. There is a noisy hush...