Word: murmur
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Shortly after the judge "entered in shriveled and eccentric majesty," Amery, to everyone's surprise, pleaded guilty to the treason charge. "In effect the young man was saying 'I insist on being hanged by the neck in three weeks' time.' A murmur ran through the court which was expostulatory, which' was horrified, which was tinged with self-pity, for this was suicide. ... It was quite clear that he was . . . congratulating himself on having at last, at the end of his muddled and frustrated existence, achieved an act crystal line in its clarity. . . ." That kind...
...cartoonists and illustrators which focused around the offices of the World and The Players and The Dutch Treat Clubs. He has long since receded to the blander pleasures of upper-middle-class suburbia in Stamford, Conn, and -with a mild sheepishness about the stylish address, and sincere enough murmurs about the Websters' susceptibility to colds- winters in Palm Beach. For years the Websters were enthusiastic theatergoers; now they wonder whether anything is as much worth coming into town for as the last show they saw, Oklahoma! Webster used to play poker every Friday night through Sunday morning...
...murmur rippled through the tense crowd as the traitor reached the scaffold. The sentence was read again. The executioners lifted him by a leather strap under his armpits into the crowd's full view. They slipped the noose around his neck. Suddenly, in guttural German, Pfitzner half-shouted, half-croaked...
...right eye gone!" a friend heard him murmur wonderingly. "Closed forever on all God's beauty." God's beauty was spread wider for John Muir than for most men. He absorbed and reveled in it as his vital element. With passionate volubility and in sinewy prose, he brought it vividly alive for more short sighted mortals. He fought for it, hard and successfully, against the invasion of commercialism. Emerson named the bearded Scot in his private list of "My Men." His most notable victory was the long, touch-& -go battle for the conservation of Yosemite Valley. Hundreds...
...major medical "errors": examination of children's ears with otoscopes, also surgical puncturing of their eardrums (responsible for many ear infections), mineral oil nose drops (they may cause pneumonia), premature attempts at straightening teeth. Doctors, says Dr. Bakwin, are prone to diagnose flat feet, large tonsils, malocclusion, heart murmur and poor posture as serious ailments when they are only normal variations that would be better let alone...