Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...text had been kept secret even from Jimmy Byrnes until last week, six months after the time when military necessity might have excused a hush-hush policy. While it had a military consideration (Russia's joining in the Japanese war), the agreement itself was as political as a pork barrel. Stalin's help in the Far East was to be rewarded with the Kuril Islands, an "independent" Mongolia and all Tsarist Russia's Far East rights. Roosevelt promised to get China's concurrence. This Yalta deal was the basis of last year's Sino-Russian...
...charged - but never proved in court - that Bonfils took $250,000 from Oilman Harry F. Sinclair to keep quiet about the Teapot Dome scandal, but such hush money would have been mere pin money to him. Before he died in 1933 (nine years after Tammen's death), he boasted that his enterprises, which ranged from mining schemes to a burlesque house, had brought him $60 million...
...take last things first, Miss Rand's reception presents an interesting study in audience reaction. Oglers who are alive and responsive during the hammy vaudeville that precedes the graceful unveiling suddenly grow cold when the fans start waving. A strained, perhaps embarrassed, hush falls over the theatre, Sally scarcely gets a hand...
...Hush, mother," cried her daughter. "Someone may hear you! Besides, I think the rats are going to attack again." In tense silence the two women waited. In silence, millions of rats, heads erect, whiskers vibrant, beady eyes alert, waited for that mass impulse, unreasoned but irresistible, which would be the signal for their hordes to remove these last human obstructions to the rat world...
DAISY KENYON-Elizabeth Janeway -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). The men & women of today's glossy fiction lead jumpy, exciting lives. They carry out hush-hush Government missions and make big money as writers and artists. They drink lots of highballs, chain-smoke, worry about themselves and talk to each other in subtle banalities to cover their emotional high tension. They love with anxious violence-usually two people at the same time, until the last chapter. And mostly they are terribly good, terribly sensitive but terribly confused...