Word: hushing
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Composer Sowerby's Prairie, like Carl Sandburg's poem which inspired it, aptly describes the hush which enwraps the flat midwestern farmlands, the far-away burr of threshing machines, the climactic glow of a sudden sunset and the grey, momentous calm which follows. A few carping critics were inclined to credit Poet Sandburg with most of the inspiration but the sharpness of Sowerby's musical perceptions, developed now into a unanimously praised skill at orchestration, showed itself long before Chicago's red-headed organist had heard of Poet Sandburg. He was six years old, living...
...prey to the first strong wind that blows, the wooden edifice of Shepherd is in shameful contrast to a group of buildings which includes Dunster, Lowell, and Eliot Houses. The University has recognized these facts for years, yet has pursued only a patch-work policy, just effective enough to hush condemnation proceedings...
...memory of the undergraduate is short, only four years, if one authority be trusted. Yet there are those who dwell among the pansies and periwinkles, who may remember a High Table only a year since. The President was a guest, and his entrance aroused in the dining hall a hush,--no, never a stare . . . in Lowell House. But soon there was amusement, a litter, and as the President came abreast James Russell Lowell's portrait, a hearty, Teutonic, gut-wrenching laugh exploded. The President heard, turned, and pointed calmly toward the door; Phantom stopped, turned, made gravely for the door...
...tense hush fell over the Senate as Vice President Curtis intoned: "The question is, Shall the joint resolution, as amended, be ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and read the third time? . . . The question now is, Shall the joint resolution pass...
...that was pending when Death came. According to those promises: Some of Bonfils' early land deals were crooked. Big winners in his lottery were confederates. He blackmailed Denver merchants into buying his Post coal. He was horsewhipped into a hospital by a Denver husband. He took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal. And the elaborate house in which "Bon" Bonfils died was the object of particularly horrid whispers-that Bonfils got it extremely cheap from a man who feared publicity...