Word: hushing
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...reduce any airborne noise passing through by 45 decibels. In Geneva, Switzerland, it is an offense to slam a car door too loudly. France confiscates automobiles that repeat noise violations. The rubber, plastic-or leather-guarded garbage can is commonplace in London, Paris and Berlin-an improvement that could hush Manhattan's most characteristic and deafening early-morning sound. Bermuda has instituted the quiet motorbike. Outboard motors are losing their bark; truck mufflers that kill the roar are available...
...Hush Money. Apart from pool rentals, the studio enriched the Connecticut economy in several other ways. A buzz-saw operator whose activities were marring the sound track was paid $200 to knock it off for the day. This in turn sent everybody and his mother out into the yards for miles around with everything from compressors to power mowers, looking for further hush money. This week 175 members of the Lake Club of New Canaan are scheduled to share the loot as extras. It's not that they need the $5 a day; it's the glimpse...
Pralines & Pompano. The young orchestra (average age: 33), when not involved in its programs or teaching 80 students at the festival's music school, is having a jolly good bash. Festival patrons have showered the musicians with champagne parties, shrimp boils at the yacht club, and enough pralines, hush puppies and fried pompano to fuel Her Majesty's navy. Last week, for those musicians who could tear themselves away from golf, water-skiing and deep-sea fishing, there was a lavish beach party with barbecued chicken, baked beans and 60 gallons of sangría, a bubbly mixture...
...House library is very well stocked, especially in English and American literature. When you walk in, you see oval portraits of the countless generations of Winthrops staring out over the carpeted hush. You can feel free to kick off you shoes when you study there. It's Lamont with a gentlemanly front...
...father left them his gold mines, and 3) buying Chicago slaughterhouses. After his death, his property was expropriated by President Andrew Jackson as compensation for Napoleon's blockade of the U.S. during the War of 1812, and ever since both the U.S. and French governments have connived to hush the whole thing...