Word: murmur
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Suddenly there was a slight stir all over the theatre, a muffled murmur as of an army leaving its bivouac for a night attack. Then the music stopped, an eighty year old man kissed a 300 pound woman and the curtain came trailing down. Amid applause the lights shot up and with them the audience. They had girded themselves well for this moment. Quick the exits. And Boston whirled out into the track outside the circle of boxes. The lights showed bravely on the brilliant ladies and the handsome men. How much the Vagabond had missed up there...
...each and every little stack-- provided, of course, the campus cops lack the necessary strength or vigilance. Then, true to Stanford's symbol, the In- dian, all freshmen cavort merrily around the fires. In the end, the entire class faces an assessment, which is always paid without a murmur. It's just another tradition...
...last evening. In the closing moments, when the tense lovers were being buried alive, there came a hush. An impassive moon shone down and from not far away came a gentle hooting. Industrial Cleveland could take its culture in huge doses, but still there remained the reminding murmur of nearby switch engines, the low moan of homing ore boats...
...Andrews, 32, Johns Hopkins chemist, announced last week that he has transposed the inaudible high pitch of atomic vibrations into piano sounds. The quavers of grain alcohol thus became a harmonic chord out of which Professor Andrews composed a pretty melody. Water's translated sound was a soft murmur, wood alcohol sounded harsh and sharp, gasoline was a crash...
...characters go through worries, advances, retreats, for four acts, and the play ends finally when the tutor goes back to Moscow. The characters shrug their shoulders, and murmur "what's the use?" with the same feeling of futility that is worrying Stalin today when he finds his railroad workers feeling futile about switches and train signals...