Word: mutterances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their servants to fill the seats. Sisi's charm and beauty made some impression on the scowling Italians; but it was not till she reached Hungary that she tasted triumph. There she was almost too successful: Hungary went so wild over her that Magyar-hating Austria began to mutter. While she was on this trip, her first child died. Vindictive Sophie said, "The heavens punish...
...there used to be from the sidewalk on the other side when the boys would come rolling home late from whatever it was they had found to come rolling home late from. There used to be uncouth songs and shouts from them sometimes and I would wake up and mutter to myself. Now the only noise that bothers me is the sparrows under the caves and in the ivy near my window. The sparrows start their lively twittering with the first rays of the (to me) invisible sun. It is usually more unpleasant than pleasant to wake up early...
...believer in such tales, the Woodbridge Recorder surprised the complainants by ordering them to cease their blather about Mrs. Czinkota. When the Hungarians continued to shiver and mutter, the authority of the Church had to be invoked. The local Hungarian-speaking priest commanded the women to forget their fears, pacifically explained that Mrs. Czinkota might have been "under hypnotic influence" when observed by Hungarian peeping-Toms...
...campus of Notre Dame University, edited the student Scholastic, was suspended for burlesquing the prefect of discipline, became class poet, class orator and was graduated in 1925 with the highest grades ever recorded at the University. On Commencement Day Notre Dame's president was heard to mutter that he was relieved to see the last of Harry McGuire...
...this year, the New York Dramatic Critic's Circle is formed, creating an intelligent board to hand laurels to dramatic artists for the first time in America, and the Harvard Classical Club revives Plautus' Mostellaria; there is indeed a year to make Aristotle chuckle, and the Harvard under-graduate mutter a prayer of thanksgiving that he was in college...