Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasure which visitors take in the agapanthus and the vanilla vines will grow or shrink (depending on individual personality and politics) with the thought of that $60 million. Longwood's taxexempt, gilt-edged lilies will toil not, nor spin; they may invite some musing future Coolidge to murmur: "Some shareholders...
...polite pitter-patter of applause from their parents' boxes or tables; others got ovations. When Miss Gary Latimer, who had been dubbed the "No. 1 Glamour Deb" by New York society editors, appeared, it was like the arrival of a movie queen on the 20th Century Limited: a murmur ran through the crowd, flashbulbs popped, and Miss Latimer smiled like no one since Brenda Diana Duff Frazier...
Singer Day does some capable chirping, too. As Aunt Jessie, Actress Barrymore has little to do or say, except purse her lips and murmur auntist profundities from the kitchen...
...mainly, was to carve objects for spirits to inhabit. Such artists never described, never analyzed, but only evoked. The spirits which African superstition demanded and African art evoked may be lonely as well as incomprehensible in Brooklyn, but they still weave powerful spells. It takes a dedicated collector to murmur, as one of the Brooklyn show's donors did last week: "These carvings are my friends." Brooklyn's Maternity Figure from the Congo can make a bronze by Henry Moore look limp-and comparatively friendly...
Although the combination of the two committees was the newest part of the general motion, made for the first time two weeks ago, it passed with hardly a murmur of dissent. Dispute centered over the House representation clause...