Word: murmurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fickle Tiger went wild and made a big killing on Saturday, the Army mule balked in more than mulish obstinacy, a Boston college back missed a crucial goal after touchdown, and three of Joe Forecast's predictions collapsed without a murmur. Such trifling disasters as these, however, hardly ruffled the calm surface of his self-satisfaction, for he had defied a legion of sport editors, the table of comparative scores and the whole city of Providence in picking Harvard to win, and by the margin of three points is his prediction justified...
...There have been and will be lapses and discouragement, surface storms and disturbances. The shallows will murmur, but the deep is still. We shall be made aware of the boisterous and turbulent forces of evil about us seeking the things which are temporal. But we shall also be made aware of the still small voice arising from the fireside of every devoted home in the land seeking the things which are eternal. To such a country, to such a cause, the American Legion has dedicated itself. Upon this rock you stand for the service of humanity. Against it no power...
...their wont to murmur it from time to time, so they murmured "Nervous Nellie" last week when he first summoned to confer with him his former colleague, now become Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Borah, and later went to confer with President Coolidge, and then issued a statement...
Suddenly certain newspapers and persons began to murmur, "This Parsee,* this M.P. from Battersea, he's a Red, an anarchist, a whatnot. What does the State Department mean by admitting him? Doesn't the law forbid the entrance of persons into this country who advocate the overthrow of our Government...
...night like mosquitoes brushed, for their plaguery, from the beard of their God, their noise has jarred through the brains of the townsmen, mingling its drowsiness with the reveries of sleepyheads until that jargoning has become part of the normal somnolence of the place, part of the indistinguishable murmur of the summer countryside, the wash of the salt air and the brooding rhythm of the distant sound...