Word: murmur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last November, curiously enough, this same revival was received in Puritanic Boston without a murmur of moral protest. Professors of the drama, of music and of literature were ardent in their recommendations. Widener Library prepared a special exhibit of original manuscripts, old playbills, criticisms; illustrations, and "Gayiana". The Fine Arts Theatre became the student fashion, and the original month's run was extended two weeks and again two weeks, closing only with the Christmas recess...
...Kaiser is married. Only one of the old crew of autocrats is still in full control of his subjects, and that is M. Paul Poiret, ruler of the world's better half. A whim of this foreign autocrat's and the appearance of civilization is changed without a murmur...
...aptitude for faith; the sheepishness of the Shakespearean mask and the sublimity of the poet; the greatness of Queen Elizabeth and the pretentiousness of her virginity; the grace of Charles the Martyr and his unending folly; the greasy corpulence of Gautier and the perfection of his verse; the divine murmur of Verlaine and the cretin's mentality...
...regards the Sultan as a usurper, and renounces all allegiance, civil or religious, to the Ottoman Empire. Mohammedan troops from India and Algeria fought not only against those Germans, but also against those of their own faith. When Mecca passed out of the power of the Turk, not a murmur was heard; yet Mecca, far more than Constantinople, has always been regarded as the center of Islam...