Word: murmures
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...noted Washington partygiver whose invitations are valued for the lavishness of the entertainment. His Rock Creek Park mansion has its own organ, swimming pool and bowling alley. A reserve colonel, he rose from private to major in World War I, was kept out of No. II by a heart murmur. He likes to sport the ribbons of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart in the lapel of his dinner jacket. Guggenheim says that as a boy he .had three ambitions: to win the English Derby, to marry a pretty woman and to be Ambassador to the Court...
...patient, Cecelia Bavolek, 18, a freshman at Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was not yet born when Dr. Gibbon began the painstaking job of designing and testing equipment which ultimately led to last week's historic operation. Cecelia had a heart murmur which got worse. Her trouble was diagnosed as a hole in the wall between the two upper quarters (auricles) of her heart. Each minute this caused several quarts of blood returning from her lungs to be promptly shunted back there, wasting a lot of her heart's energy...
...Talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, least he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, I fondly ask; But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts, who best Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o're Land and Ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand...
There was a murmur of assent from my room-mate. We waited. The stranger glanced down at the newspapers littering the floor. "I see, Well, I'm in the room next to yours over there, and my room-mate and I thought it would be a good idea for me to come up, check on a few things--talk it over...
...furnished in a combination of advanced geometric shapes and Chinese prints; there are some books, a head of Bucky sculptured in chromium, and a photograph of his beautiful daughter, Allegra. Mrs. Fuller, as befits the wife of a man concerned almost exclusively with the future, is apt to murmur "How nice, darling," in answer to almost any revelation from her husband. Once when he was deep in numerology, he conducted a marital quarrel entirely in digits. "He was terribly mad at me that night," Anne Fuller recalled, "but all he would say was '27-4-32.' " Genealogy connects...