Word: murmures
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Observers, noting gargantuan national defense bills being swallowed by the U. S. almost without a murmur, wondered whether the policymakers, the cable-readers, had not misinterpreted the national will for isolationism as a wish for peace at any price. Popular reaction to American White Paper may tell much. But gone were the days when Calvin Coolidge spoke for the nation in saying "The business of America is business." Senator Key Pittman last week seemed almost as out-of-date when he said: "Let the mothers and fathers of America sleep in peace...
...minded societies provide music. They can get quite a good soprano for two or three guineas plus her dinner which she eats behind a screen or in the next room (because of the stories); but if she is old and ugly your diners moodily finger their wine glasses and murmur 'Hell,' and if she is young and charming they are continually popping behind the screen to see if she's got everything she wants. In either case it's all rather distracting and a speechmaker is well worth the little extra...
...damped. Finally the President stepped out on the South Portico. He began talking. He tried to be light. No one laughed. He made some political remarks. No one clapped. He was fatherly-told the children to be sure to change into dry clothes when they got home. Not a murmur. Then he lit into them...
...even after Russia's troops were haltingly emulating Germany's great drive, with 2,000,000 troops in motion against a fragmentary Polish defense, Russian leaders continued to murmur against the perfidy of the Poles in being whipped so soon. When Russia's military machine began to move, more than 3,000,000 well-equipped, well-trained German-Russian troops were driving in opposite directions against the forlorn remnants of Poland's scattered, shattered, fragmentary armies. Still dizzy with successes, Premier Molotov made a radio address: "Comrades," said he, "men and women citizens of our great...
...whole legion of non-Communist but hitherto sympathetic pinkos, the New Republic and the Nation deplored "Stalin's Munich," Hitler's "colossal diplomatic victory." For thousands of citizens who had contributed to the Front simple libertarian goodwill, there was no outlet save a murmur of disillusion over the land. For millions of suspicious isolationists the worst opinion of the Reds was merely confirmed. Famed Editor William Allen White's son William L. reported from Emporia: ". . . No one in Kansas was stunned this morning, and we are doing business as usual. . . . It's much simpler now that...