Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DING DONG BELL-Walter De La Mare-Knopf ($1.75). Two people-a young lady with a silk sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the old gentleman remarks: "Fifty years ago you could have cradled an infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely...
...setting that frames Marblehead, Mass., and this, in Marblehead's annual Art exhibition, is painting No. 1, by John P. Benson. Once port of call for East Indiamen, rich and important, with tea, silks and spices piled in its warehouses, the old town drowses now, lost in the hush of a dream. Wharves rot; rats squeak in deserted storerooms ; tiny pleasure-craft have replaced the tall schooners, rich Summer residents the bustling Tory merchants. However, quaint local traditions, local characters, still survive. There is the Poet Postman, unique Man of Letters, who for 30 years has delivered bills...
...being laid in an out-of-the-way community in the Catskills where piety is the main business and every other interest subsidiary. Here, in 1870, the elders, on finding a girl has been misled, hasten her marriage to the son of the village leader, sure that this will hush up everything...
...other way, pretends to be a well- known modiste, and while success rolls in on one side, the police roll in on the other-for her assumed namesake has been involved in Red Cross frauds. The girl's prosecution is pushed by a political boss anxious to hush her up in her fight to make him pay for crippling her brother. But a young attorney saves her by a stall. Artificial but well-wrought complications carry the story along. Agnes Ayres looks pretty but placid as the girl, and Antonio Moreno seems a bit too romantic for a mere...
There was a hush of expectancy as President Eliot accepted the parchment and turned to address the waiting throng. Although his voice was not strong, and did not carry beyond the foremost ranks of the crowd, absolute silence reigned throughout...