Word: murmurings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shippan Point, Conn.). One of the latter may knock out run after run on a spring afternoon or, when November has turned the leaves wan, may carry a begrimed ball for endless gains; even so, he shall not come to honor. For the little fellows and their supporters will murmur among themselves. "That guy, how does he get in?" they will demand of the spring sky, of the autumn clouds. The Massee School's headmaster, should he hear them, would doubtless reply: "Why, that boy is a special student." "Student, yeah," the little ones will savagely rejoin. "A ringer...
...critics that ponder, as they read the meter, such terms as "a good performance, well sung," "gala night," "once more with a brilliant cast . . ." wishing to Heaven they could find a new phrase or change for a quarter. At regular intervals, the cabdrivers hear, from within, a prolonged rattling murmur which means that an act has ended and the nonsports are giving an imitation of enthusiasm. On a certain cold night last week, they heard that familiar sound ; it seemed curiously louder, nor did it die away. While they swapped butts, it grew, swelled into a steady, insistent, thunderous, stubborn...
...thought is too terrible to dwell upon. With grateful tears John Harvard can only shake his head and murmur: "Thank you, George, but it cannot...
...Conservatives, who hoped to make stock of the Russian document, did not seem to have as keen an ear for the murmur as the person at whom the protest was directed, for as soon as the applause set in they were frightened into a policy of hopeful waiting. When the applause was to die down they hoped to stir the murmur into a growl and with a late fall campaign to bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Government to force an election...
...sooner had he bowed out of Parliament than he bowed into the annual convention of the Labor Party to start his campaign. And this campaign will be waged with applause still drowning out the murmur of the Russian affair, with the Conservatives unprepared, and with the Liberals undecided which way to turn, shouldering MacDonald's own responsibility for the unpopular election. Almost by coincidence a new electoral register comes into force on October 15, giving the Labor party with its far superior clerical machinery a distinct advantage...