Word: murmur
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...party swings past midnight. Slowly departing guests murmur to General Prawin: "Delighted . . . dziekuje . . . enchanté . . . ya voskhishchen priemom...
...with "Casey Jones" and part of "Three Saints in Four Acts," both of which lose less when they are played in the Great Outdoors, and the languorous audience was a bit more responsive. As it was, the pigeons above Widener, a passing fire engine on Kirkland Street, and the murmur of the crowd stretched on the grass were distracting to the Glee Club, which was seriously singing serious works...
...minor role, Mason does little more than sip champagne, dilate his nostrils and murmur, with a leer: "Not quite cool enough but beautifully alive!" At that, he easily takes the romantic play away from the deadpan leading man, Stewart Granger. Phyllis Calvert, as a cabinet member's illegitimate child who eventually achieves her rightful station, displays a fine-boned beauty and something beyond the call of duty in a British cinemactress: a good set of teeth. A merciful Atlantic washed away the picture's only other attraction: the original title, Fanny by Gaslight...
...clock the crowd began to gather outside the 'Poon building, to partake of the free beer and listen to the serenade of a pick-up band. Forty-five minutes later every white shoe and club tie in Cambridge was there, but for some reason the animals were not. A murmur of expectation ran through the crowd as a peddler passed by with his horse and wagon, but negotiations failed...
...heading: The Disintegration of Values. Some of them are hauntingly phrased: "The man who from afar off yearns for his wife or merely for the home of his childhood has begun his sleepwalking. . . . He still hears the voice of the demagogue, but it comes as a mere unmeaning murmur. He stretches his arms sideways and forwards like a poor tightrope dancer who, high above solid earth, knows of a better support...