Word: murmurings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago the Vagabond sat in the Century Theatre and watched a New York audience file out at the end of a play without applause, without so much as a murmur of conversation down the crowded aisles. This greatest of all tributes the tribute of silence was paid to a dramatist two thousand years dead. Sophocles was that dramatist and it was Sir John Martin-Harvey's performance of "Oedipus Rex" that so won Broadway...
...condemned and criticized I shall not murmur, because I remember that Sam Houston, the father of Texas, paid the same penalty. If I am hated and abused, I shall forgive my enemies and find comfort in the recollection that Jim Hogg,* when he laid down the reins of power, was also hated and abused...
...cuss-not the least of which was the status of Arthur R. Gould, the pride of Aroostook County, Maine. Mr. Gould was the Republican nominee for Senator to succeed the late Senator Bert M. Fernald, and was expected to win the special election last week without a murmur. But, one week before election, noxious charges against him began to pop up. His Democratic opponent, Fulton J. Redman, produced records of a Canadian investigation of 1918 in which Mr. Gould admitted under oath paying $100,000 to one-time Premier J. K. Fleming of New Brunswick in connection with a railway...
...tarnished brass and torn leather adumbrated a bygone respectability-rolling heavily but with sinister smoothness through his city's streets, the big tonneau jammed to the guards with a lounging, ill-favored crew of foreign-blooded males whose pull-down caps and brooding faces caused the beholder to murmur: "Lordy, what a bunch of yeggs...
...thanks either to their own efforts or to the fortune amassed for them by a considerate father, will be men of affairs and captains of industry. And they will read some morning of a strike. . . . How pleasant it will be ... to frown at the morning's news and murmur, 'Bolsheviki,' 'hoodlums,' 'vandals...