Word: murmurings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, at the exhibition of the John Quinn Collection in Manhattan, old ladies and dilettantes gathered round an object, gaping, making a murmur of "Is it a bird? If it isn't, what is it? Whatever it is, is it art?" It was tall, shiny, spindling, like a magnification of an exclamation point, like a Freudian symbol. Manufactured by famed Sculptor Constantin Brancusi of Rumania, it was titled, with a supreme disregard of appearance, with an arrogant, baffling simplicity, "The Bird...
...murmur of "I told you so," went up. Boris was looking for an English girl of aristocratic parentage, of which there were scores eligible. But those who knew smiled, recalled the young King's sentiments not long ago expressed: "Bulgaria cannot afford a Queen. I sometimes wonder if she can afford a King...
...Originally named Samuel Barnet, but at 14, just before his first stage appearance, he was accidentally dubbed Sam Bernard by the stage manager, who misunderstood his shy murmur. He kept the misnomer, made it legal...
...little muttering wars, the noise of the mines under the hot sun, the songs that the Dutch vintners sing and the old curses that black men shout in the alleys of Johannes-burg?for most people these are far away. They are heard only as a confused murmur, a distant and broken music...
...President, meteorologically wise, would ever murmur these words to the heavens. For it is rain that keeps a President and his party in power; drought forebodes political upheaval...