Word: mutter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parish church in small Konigsbrunn, northwest of Vienna in Germany's Ostmark, the white-&-gold banners of the papacy fluttered in the Sunday morning sunlight. The flags showed that a cardinal was within. In the church sounded the peaceful mutter of the Mass. Outside, a mob of bumpkins grew. As the Mass neared its end, with its "Go, it is finished," shouts came from...
Louis' gluttony was gargantuan: Author Padover calls it "glandular." A "normal" meal for him would consist of four cutlets, a fat chicken, six eggs, a slice of ham. Sometimes he gorged himself insensible, would then mutter remorseful words of "slop-pail grossness." At decisive moments he was often too gorged...
...minority whom such an arrangement would not please fall into two camps. For those who would like the drawing power of a large social function to attract distant damsels, a class dance still remains a possibility. Those, on the other hand, who disdainfully mutter "Corn!" at the mention of a small orchestra, can get more jitters per dollar in Boston, where hot spots, in addition to good bands, alcohol and floor shows, have the virtue of being out of earshot from Cambridge...
...truck driver toured the city collecting pennies from housewives. Unaware of this concerted raid until too late, merchants, housewives and bankers by nightfall had given up to the penny-pinching students some 250,000 pennies, half of the city's supply. By that time Troy was beginning to mutter, and retail commerce was all but crippled. Merchants adjusted their odd-cent prices to the nearest nickel, used postage stamps for change, sent out emergency calls for pennies to banks in neighboring towns...
...would sprint across the floor when he saw his team had the ball and wave his arms wildly and shout, "Here! Here! Throw it here!" Then the ball would be thrown elsewhere, and he would grow! and mutter an "Oh, damn!" Once he captured the ball out of the air and started to dribble madly towards the basket. Suddenly he bethought himself of an unselfish move and pushed the ball into the unsuspecting arms of a teammate. Before the latter had taken two steps, and before he could get ahead of him, he shouted, "Pass it back, pass it back...