Word: hushing
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First disclosure was that Sir Joseph had paid not $5,000 hush money as many papers had guessed, but $60,000 to Mme Hahn. The Hahns settled in Dinard, France, and round pugnacious Harry J. Hahn set himself to studying the chemistry of paint. His new evidence...
...when students of the Royal Scientific College just across the street set up exuberant catcalls in which they persisted throughout the royal speech. While a translator rendered the King's English into French (and his French into English) blue-helmeted London bobbies chased the catcalling students, achieved a hush amid which snowy-polled Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald rose to keynote as President of the Conference...
...serious hush fell over a full Senate chamber as Senator Glass rose to his feet and, against doctor's orders, delivered the only notable speech of the inflation debate. His physical strength was at low ebb. Tears stood in his soft brown eyes. But his words, bitten off out of the corner of his mouth, were edged with their old-time vehemence. . . . After 20 minutes he slumped back into his chair, weak and exhausted. About him crowded inflationists and anti-inflationists, to wring his small hand, praise his courage...
...interest and owing to the fact that the fathers of both bride and groom are nationally known, Mr. William Foust Wiley as a publicist and publisher, a citizen of acknowledged judgment and influence, and Mr. Frank Furbus Dinsmore as a lawyer of high repute and marked ability. . . . "Into the hush of this ambient twilight came the bridal procession, the feathery green of tender laurel that wreathed choir stalls, pulpit and rood screen, and the curving fronds of a few giant palms massed in the chancel, pointing the way to the altar where the snowy chalices of tall Easter lilies were...
...Colleano, the only man on earth who can turn a front somersault and land upright on a tight wire without cutting himself in two, is as exciting as ever, though he did miss it four times and have to give up at the first matinee. In the hush that falls before his act, the crackle of a peanut shell shakes the air like a splintered plank. Asked what he thinks about during his twice-daily moment of congealed concentration, he says: "I think what a hell of a responsibility...