Word: hushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this prayerful ending a hush gripped the throng. Click. The King-Emperor had closed the gold switch during his speech. Slowly as he spoke the great curtain rolled away disclosing the arched entrance to Queensway. Amid wave on wave of cheering His Majesty drove with the Queen-Empress by his side through the gleaming new arch and down under the Mersey with transatlantic liners riding at anchor over his royal head...
...malfeasance was one of the Nazis' first acts, but his case has been carried to a higher court in which Son Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg has twice testified as a witness for Dr. Gereke. Well posted observers suspected President von Hindenburg of putting pressure on Chancellor Hitler to hush up the Gereke affair and of sending up a von Papen trial balloon to test the solidity of the Nazi State...
...certain Herr Jembrowski who was let out of prison long enough to tattle on Ziegler and Epstein and to declare: "Horst Wessel was murdered by the command of Communist party leaders." On the strength of this testimony Epstein and Ziegler were sentenced to decapitation. No effort was made to hush up the fact that Hero Horst Wessel, far from disliking women as has been suggested, kept a buxom mistress, Lucie of the Alexanderplatz. Also cleaned up last week was the biggest high treason trial ever held in Germany, with no defendants. German papers reported the trial only on the first...
...Presidents by direct popular vote. At the climax of his speech he addressed the Chair, extending his hand in a dramatic gesture, denying categorically that such an amendment would favor any political party, would serve any end save the true purposes of democracy. Then he sat down amid a hush...
...students of Ohio's Kent State College up to the stage where Dancer Ted Shawn with his group was miming the end of his interpretation of John Brown. A few snickers followed. Dancer Shawn played on until the last curtain fell. Then he raised a long finger to hush the applause, folded his arms and spoke: "We've played before audiences in New York and Boston, we've played before the hillbillies of the Carolinas and the cowboys of Texas, but this is the most ill-bred and ill-mannered audience to which we've ever...