Word: murmuring
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...possible to see the bereaved mother sitting in the middle of the assembly holding a small child. She seemed almost in a stupor. All the relatives leaned forward to see what it was all about. When they realized that I, a foreigner, had brought the widow money, a murmur of astonishment escaped them. . . . The money which I gave the mother seemed to daze her still more. When they made her understand that the money was actually hers and all that she was expected to do was to sign a receipt, she simply became wide-eyed. Her signature consisted...
...beautifully bred audience, which filled the house at $50 (in war bonds) to $5,000 a seat, responded by laying $4,036,000 on the line without a murmur-radio's biggest war-bond take for a one-night stand. Average purchase: $1,495. One enraptured dowager shelled...
...Hurlbut asks above the shellfire: 'Do any of you fellows mind if I say the Lord's Prayer?' We press him and he recites the prayer in a loud voice that fills the dugout above the noise of the guns and comforts us. We murmur 'Amen' when he is finished and sit in shocked silence while the earth continues to rock...
...arrive. Even when the royal red carpet was rolled out in Paddington Station, no official winked significantly. Said a loitering cabbie: "Naow, they told me the Queen was giving away chocolates." When the station's news vendor finally caught a glimpse of her, he let out a surprised murmur: "Well, who would have thought...
They drill after sundown in small groups, grimly determined to pivot smartly on the command of "Squads right." They swallow their bitterest potion-barrack life, bunk to bunk-without a murmur on the invasion of their privacy. (One WAAC did use her weekend liberty two weeks after induction to take a large double room in the Fort Des Moines Hotel and sit happily alone in the middle of it.) For four hours a day, for a full day and a half at week's end the WAACs can do what they please. When the study hall closes...