Word: hushing
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...disloyalty to those who have acted in my interest instead of the taxpayers. But I have no sense of loyalty to persons. There is an outside loudspeaker in the home grounds. (We get free entertainment, too: radio, theatre, movies.) Each Friday when the "March of Time" comes on, a hush falls over the crowd of listeners. They like it. Last night at the Home Theatre, two comedians came on the stage, one a Democrat, one a Republican. The boys interrupted their dialog to cheer loud & long-for the Democrat. J. F. WALTON...
...given a current-events course, we'll fill the lecture-hall to the doors. And there is hope for a rebirth of interest in the world's doings. One has only to be witness to the hush of curious concern that falls over the History I assembled multitude when the lecturer draws a parallel to the Middle Ages from some recent world-event. Beverley M. Bowie...
...thousands of followers in Germany. Last year she started bewitching the U. S. but her time was short. She began again last week in Providence, R. I., had the mixed reception that daring exhibitionists must expect. Most people applauded her wildly or sat in a state of self-conscious hush. Some groped for her message and were honestly perplexed. A few irreverents were amused at what seemed to them mere prancing, lunging and meaningless posturing...
Engaged, John Joseph ("Johnny") Farrell. U. S. Open golf champion 1928; and Catherine Theresa Hush, who played with him in the talking pictures "How To Play Golf...
...glory of Egypt in Ohio was again unfolded on the last evening. In the closing moments, when the tense lovers were being buried alive, there came a hush. An impassive moon shone down and from not far away came a gentle hooting. Industrial Cleveland could take its culture in huge doses, but still there remained the reminding murmur of nearby switch engines, the low moan of homing ore boats...