Word: hushing
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...courtroom fell into a hush as, in a clear, well modulated voice Judge Allen began to read the decision. No sooner had she paused for a first swallow of water than TVA's General Counsel James Lawrence Fly broke into a broad grin. At the utilities counsel table gloom slowly spread over the face of the late Newton D. Baker's Cleveland law partner, William H. Bemis. For by the time Florence Allen, several gulps of water and 70 minutes later, had finished reading it was clear that TVA had scored a monumental legal victory...
...wall a few feet away a huge placard: "HUSH! Remember it is your duty to be silent!" The worker looked at Dr. Ley, then at the placard, then at Dr. Ley again and answered...
...largest army (1,300,000 men who serve without pay but get their board and keep), is to have Soviet workers put together in Russia a first-class Red Navy out of parts made abroad. This incipient "Assembled Navy," the first in world history, is now in the hush-hush stage, but last week the U. S. State Department announced that the U. S. S. R. has suddenly become the largest customer for U. S. war materials, and that last month the first shipment of disassembled U. S. parts for the Soviet Navy went out-parts for capital ships...
...that they did, Dr. Goebbels himself rushed ahead to Essen, and when the Dictators' trains came rumbling in next day, Krupps and workers had done themselves proud. Correspondents, shoved completely out of the picture, cooled their heels while II Duce and Der Führer tramped through the hush-hush realms of Munitioneer Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach...
...keep up-to-date. The medical bigwigs are smothered in red tape. Worst of all, perhaps, are the specialists- typified by the word "Harley Street"- who exploit the rich, scratch one another's backs to their mutual profit, in some cases make fortunes on the side by performing hush-hush abortions for careless socialites...