Word: mutter
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...perfect sense of humor. He loved good food and the best wines, and our luncheons rarely took less than three hours. . . ." Thyssen told some juicy tales of the private lives of Nazi bigshots, but when he remembered how they had hoodwinked him, he would pound his head and mutter, "Ein Dummkopf war ich!" ("What a dumbhead...
Despite his calm reception of the news, Colonel Phinizy was later heard to mutter into a glass of "Mah Confederate ancestry calls but within me sub Ab prefer mah Sheridans twenty miles away...
...when Pollock was 82 he ventured to write My dear young Frederick, adding later "Frederick really is growing up." He seldom failed to send his love to "your Lady." Justice Holmes had a sharp eye for ladies, was once known to stare after a pretty girl and mutter: "Oh, to be 80 again...
...pounds of food a day, hears more complaints about the chow than a Congressman. By 7:45 they are pushing their yellow biplane trainers out of the hangars for the day's flying. It is still very, very cold as they start the motors, and they shiver and mutter as they catch the blast from the props...
...hampered aid programs and offered the Christian Front, the Klu Klux Klan, and the Bund a chance to strike a blow for the swastika here at home. These All Americans with their dupes and colleagues oppose further immigration on the grounds that those already here have increased unemployment. They mutter about our own racial purity and complain that this is a Jewish problem-that Palestine and Madagascar are good enough for the refuse of the Fuhrer...