Word: mutter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour the curious architecture of University Hall assumes a terrible significance; its resemblance to a ferry-boat has now a gruesome appropriateness. We now know that it was intended to symbolize the barge of Charon carrying its freight from shore to shore. We are too dejected even to mutter maledictions on the head of the architect possessed of this ghastly sense of humor. It is all rather...
...late John Singer Sargent would occasionally mutter into his beard that "Portrait painting is a pimp's profession!" and go off to do his best work, loose inspired landscapes in watercolor. Frank O. Salisbury has little time for such relaxation. He is not only a court painter but a ceremonial painter, commissioned to record on enormous canvases such scenes as The King's Offering in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey; The Official Picture of H. R. H. Princess...
...success, Magician Heger proposed to go to England, collect the $25,000 prize offered by the Magic Circle Society of Magicians in London for successful performance of the trick. Next afternoon he stepped onto the stage again. Excited, he forgot to have the lights dimmed, began to mutter mystically in the glare of a white spotlight. The audience saw a thin bright wire hoist the rope aloft, saw the Hindu boy climb up, hop easily behind a curtain. When the bloody members thudded down and the magician picked them up, the audience tittered to see an arm left oozing...
...German children bring to their grateful parents. Hereafter the first child will mean a 15% income tax cut and each bouncing moppet thereafter will reduce the tax by an additional 20% until with the birth of their sixth Kind, total exemption from income tax will come to Vater und Mutter...
...Storm Troopers based their demand on the obscure stabbing of one of their district leaders by a Stahlhelm official in Pomerania. When Herr Hitler refused last week to dissolve the Stahl helm and accorded Col. Seldte a friendly audience Berlin Storm Troop leaders were stupid enough to mutter openly against Der Führer and arouse the suspicions of General Göring's Secret Police...