Word: hushed
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...Baldwin, compact, candid, assured, arose amid a portentous hush. Within five minutes Laborite M.P.'s were no more able to keep still than jumping beans upon a griddle. "Who forced this on you?" they shouted at the Premier. "This means a general election...
...Leroy Cullen of Bloomfield, N. J., missed his hold, dropped under the grinding trucks, was carried to a hospital, where surgeon amputated both legs. Next morning four relatives entered his room and a clear tenor voice was raised, singing "Mother Machree." After the last note there was a hush. Cullen's relatives filed out, lips quivering, grief-stricken. Wondering hospital attendants learned that the deceased, trained in a choir, often sang to his family of an evening, had wished to put his ebbing strength into a song of parting, as the wild swans are said...
...Manhattan theatreful of the East's leading fad-connoisseurs fell into expensive hush, breathlessly hoping that all they had heard from Americanos lately abroad was even partly true. Glad tidings had come from widest sources; from jaded novelists and strong-minded grandmothers, from callow collegians and a onetime U. S. foreign ambassador, who had circulated verses that were but feebly expressive of the ecstasy that called them forth. The evening had even been signalized by a cable from the King of Spain?his thanks in advance for America's "homage to Spanish...
...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...