Word: hushing
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...Hush! Didst hear the glad tidings? They are to remain staidly reasonable. Long ducks and huge knickers will still suit the fancy. No shades of epic athletes or even Fauntleroys will haunt the Yard. Perhaps it would be wise to bolster the resolution by a vote of appreciation in behalf of The Rest of Us for the great-mindedness which is to uphold the dignity of human sense and sensibility. Suggestions as to the means of such expression are respectfully requested. Mehitable, in The Radcliffe Daily...
Next came the vote on flexibility. Result: 42-to-42. Amid an awful hush Vice President Curtis broke the tie, cast his vote against non-flexibility. The Tariff Bill went back to conference with the House where a quick agreement was anticipated...
...hush fell over the chamber when Illinois' Representative Charles Adkins, onetime State Director of Agriculture under Governor Frank Orren Lowden, rose to remark: "If there was any proposition up which would enable the farmer to stick his hands down into Uncle Sam's rockets, I'd be for it. But I don't see that opportunity in voting 'for this debenture plan." Neither did a House majority which voted (231-to-161) to strike the proposal from the bill...
...Chief of Staff, General Charles Pelot Summerall, had been insulted. Junior officers about the Department knew the General had gone to the Army's proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md., had returned to Washington in a state df high indignation. With true esprit de corps they tried to hush up the whole affair...
...first is the editorial attitude of the CRIMSON itself in crying, "Hush, hush," and trying to silence widespread dissatisfaction by regretting a "public discussion of affairs not directly the affairs of the public" and calling "the issues too grave for sensational discussion by open letters." This policy falls to realize that public opinion is the most effective weapon to obtain results in a situation like this where the employer follows a close-fisted policy of silence. Public opinion guides our leaders in matters ranging from international disarmament to the wearing of pajamas in city streets. It was by public discussion...