Word: hushing
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...while the bands were playing Dixie, a sudden hush came over the throng. The Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans were standing with hands clasped before the flag of our country...
...sympathy and co-operation with Faculty and alumni. They have not felt that the sole privilege allowed the loyal alumnus should be that of contributing to the Alumni Fund. Such men cannot but be alarmed at the flagrant disregard of their desires in the matter of the construction of Hush Hall...
...Labor was enacted into law by the present Congress. Among the most reactionary of those defeated proposals were the schemes of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge and the consolidated interests to untax the rich and tax the poor. Among other vicious proposals were the sales tax, efforts to hush scandals that have been partly uncovered in Government departments, the veto of the postal employes' wage bill and the veto of the soldiers' adjusted compensation...
DING DONG BELL-Walter De La Mare-Knopf ($1.75). Two people-a young lady with a silk sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the old gentleman remarks: "Fifty years ago you could have cradled an infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely...
...setting that frames Marblehead, Mass., and this, in Marblehead's annual Art exhibition, is painting No. 1, by John P. Benson. Once port of call for East Indiamen, rich and important, with tea, silks and spices piled in its warehouses, the old town drowses now, lost in the hush of a dream. Wharves rot; rats squeak in deserted storerooms ; tiny pleasure-craft have replaced the tall schooners, rich Summer residents the bustling Tory merchants. However, quaint local traditions, local characters, still survive. There is the Poet Postman, unique Man of Letters, who for 30 years has delivered bills...