Word: murmurings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such accomplishments the nation could not refrain from applause, but under the applause a murmur of dissatisfaction with the Russian treaty could still he heard, and that murmur has not passed unnoticed by the Premier...
...Osborn?"The astral body theory . . . made it an eminently proper play. It took the edge from the guilty delight of such spectators as had thought to shout 'Wow!' and felt impelled instead to murmur 'Blah...
...crypt of St. Peter's, a tomb lay covered with flowers. Heavy candles diffused their ethereal light, revealing black-draped and kneeling figures, bent in devout prayer. A slight murmur of subdued voices disturbed the restful silence. Occasionally, the firm voice of a prelate would rise above the murmur as he pronounced a benediction, or sometimes low, sad chants would break the stillness. Close to the tomb were two elderly sisters of the dead, absorbed in reciting the Ave Maria, as they tremblingly counted their beads. All that long day, figures shuffled in and shuffled out of the crypt...
SUNRISE TRUMPETS?Joseph Auslander?Harper ($2.00). Lyric poems, intense, fragmentary, abruptly lovely; their chiseled imagery entirely unhackneyed and often breathtakingly beautiful. One hears the "bronze murmur of bees," feels a ship at night "lifted to the level of the rime-stung stars," knows the "shattered silver" and "crushed gray light" of rain, and the devastating beauty of women long dead?Yseult, Marie Antoinette, Guinevere...
Political diagnosticians regard the Senator's misfortune as an evil symptom for the third party movement. No other insurgent has equal vim, vigor, vitality. No other has as great a following. Regular Republicans, kneeling by their beds before blowing out the evening candle, murmur: "And may Fighting Bob recover, but let third parties perish in miserable confusion. Amen...