Word: hushing
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...this car." House and Senate obligingly approved the Postmaster General's purchase of a topper-fitting automobile. In New York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language-dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody. Said he: "Beauty of sound is not enough. Mush is a word pleasant to the ear, but its connotation is ugly. Beauty of meaning is not sufficient. Mother is one of our most loved words, but it lacks euphony." Meeting in Manhattan...
When newsmen tried to interrogate him about War Debts. Prohibition or Taxes, he mockingly put his finger across his lips, hoarsely whispered: "Hush! Hush...
...Hlush! hush!?whisper who dares?...
...Governor study the law. Mr. Pinchot rapped back: "I cannot concede that you are powerless to help. . . . Your appointees would unquestionably respect your wishes. You yourself have given the guarantee that no one shall starve in this country. I ask you to make that guarantee good in Pennsylvania." To hush the impetuous Governor, R. F. C. granted three hard-hit Pennsylvania counties $2,500, 000 which Mr. Pinchot exclaimed was "totally inadequate...
...hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell...