Word: hushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General John Joseph Pershing, 76. was interviewed under a tree at his home in Lincoln, Neb., on the 20th anniversary of the U. S. entrance into the War. Had he any comment on the occasion? "Hush, gentlemen," whispered the A. E. F.'s Commander-in-Chief. "Hear that redbird sing? That is more important to me right...
...debate on whether to issue the bonds. Just behind her sat the wife of Conservative Deputy Paul Bietrix, and the speech Premier Blum was making gradually amused Mme Bietrix more & more, until finally she greeted its close with a derisive shriek of laughter. Snapped Mme Blum, turning around furiously, "Hush up! You couldn't do as well as he!" Other statesmen's wives seated nearby joined verbal battle with such vim that the Chamber entirely dropped work, amused Deputies had eyes only for Herriot's box, the Premier's wife flushed beet red realizing that...
...scene when the bugle blew for the parade to the post: "The . . . track was so crowded there almost wasn't room enough for the horses. . . ." At the post, it took three and a half minutes to get the field of 18 in line. Then, in a sudden hush, the line began to move and the crowd to roar. What happened in the most important instant of the race was best recorded, not by a reporter, but by the $50,000 electric camera at the finish. It clicked when Mrs. C. S. Howard's Seabiscuit...
...Government circles one of the most influential aristocrats in the Kingdom. Derby took the course of advising British editors that his entertaining of von Ribbentrop was a "purely private affair" and that "any talk will be confidential." He expected the Kingdom's newsorgans to unite in keeping his hush-hush house party hushed but there are too many British Jews in journalism for that. Instantly news of the Ribbentrop-Derby "confidential talk" leaked into anti-Nazi quarters and next morning the New York Times printed as news that Lord Derby "is held to have committed one of the first...
...DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM!" An expectant hush settled over the high marble hall of the Chamber of Deputies in Buenos Aires last week and Franklin Roosevelt had just opened his mouth to speak, when down from the topmost gallery snarled these insulting words. Instant and tactful cheers from the audience drowned out their echo. Dr. Saavedra Lamas, Argentine Foreign Minister, craned his neck to catch sight of the offender...