Word: hushing
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...Presidents by direct popular vote. At the climax of his speech he addressed the Chair, extending his hand in a dramatic gesture, denying categorically that such an amendment would favor any political party, would serve any end save the true purposes of democracy. Then he sat down amid a hush...
...students of Ohio's Kent State College up to the stage where Dancer Ted Shawn with his group was miming the end of his interpretation of John Brown. A few snickers followed. Dancer Shawn played on until the last curtain fell. Then he raised a long finger to hush the applause, folded his arms and spoke: "We've played before audiences in New York and Boston, we've played before the hillbillies of the Carolinas and the cowboys of Texas, but this is the most ill-bred and ill-mannered audience to which we've ever...
Bluntly, Tischendorf stole the priceless book, and sold it to the Russian Tsar. . . . The monastery never ceased its intermittent efforts to get back the manuscript, although they were given a small sum by the Tsar, as a sort of ''hush money...
...Admiralty to take a look at H. M. S. Adventure, a 7,000-ton cruiser whose innards have been a closely guarded secret ever since her launching nine years ago. There may have been ulterior reasons for the trip. Though widely known as the last of Britain's "hush hush" ships, the Adventure, only cruiser-minelayer in the British Navy, has been in commission long enough for the high command of most of the world's navies to be well aware of her secrets. She was being refitted last week for service to China. What Critic Bywater...
...boys at Hotchkiss School (Lakeville, Conn.) trooped into their dining hall one night last fortnight and, after the sudden short hush for grace, fell to gobbling and talking in a cheery, noisy hum and clatter as usual. The polished brasses gleamed by the big fireplace over which a great white bust of Homer looks down his nose at the carven verse: Back of the Loaf is the snowy Flour, back of the Flour the Mill. Back of the Mill the Wheat and the Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master...