Word: murmures
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...pillaging the Freshman till, the Bureau responds with a shocked innocence, that such things have always been, and implies that the pre-final period is a rather nasty time to bring it all up anyway. Meanwhile, cocking its ear towards the Yard, the Bureau professes to find a murmur against an intolerance so fatal...
Having blasted away at each other all week through an amplifying system which made every murmur an angry shout, the labor executives' committee and the railway executives adjourned from the smoky ballroom to Room No. 13. Conspicuously not present at the knee-to-knee parley was fatherly President Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of the B. & 0. who, with amiable President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, patched together the existing wage arrangement. And although present, President Robertson was no longer the voice of railway labor. New leaders were General Manager William Francis Thiehoff of Chicago...
...declared Roscoe Conkling Simmons, "distress has overtaken us. We come to you in our heaviest hour. Some few have gone so far as to say you do not believe in human equality. We have been told our party has deserted the old faith. Speak. Mr. President, speak!" An emotional murmur ran through the black crowd. President Hoover spoke: "The friendship of our part)' for the American Negro has endured unchanged for 70 years. . . . Our party will not abandon or depart from its traditional duty toward the American Negro. ' Then President Hoover shook hands with his fellow Republicans...
...outfit. If you don't think so. just start something. You'll ride the cushions home and there'll be food for you. That's more than Hoover did for you. I'm giving you guys a break. What do you say? [A minor murmur of dissent.] Then you bums can walk and I'll see you get a damned good start. I won't call in any troopers to massacre you. I'll put you to hell out myself. . . . I'll knock the teeth out of anybody who hangs around...
...stunned with disappointment. A bewildered murmur that rose to a roar swept the crowd. Here & there were a few boos. Then suddenly, starting from nowhere, they began to sing "America" until the night sky seemed to tremble with their resolute voices. Later in small groups they drifted back to their crazy shacks and shelters on the mudflats...