Word: mutterings
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...bandit's body. The confession earned him no forgiveness for his other crimes; he was sentenced to life imprisonment. And it left him haunted by the certainty that Giuliano's friends would seek revenge. "One of these days they will kill me," he was sometimes heard to mutter as he paced the tiny cell he shared with his father (also a convicted bandit) in Palermo's grim Ucciar-done Prison...
...Vale of Temple, Dartmouth's Ski jump. The competition was close as the 38 men slid down the in-run and flew off for jumps up to 130 feet. As Dartmouth's Bassette whizzed along the frighteningly steep incline, crouched and waiting, the Old Grad announcer was heard to mutter in the microphone, "Come on. Johnny...
John Singer Sargent, standing at the easel in his studio on London's Tite Street, used to mutter, "Gainsborough would have done it!" But in his heart he knew he was no Gainsborough. What Sargent had in abundance was a capacity for flattering his sitters in paint, and naturally they flocked to him. He complained that "portrait painting is a pimp's profession," and late in life he swore off it. "No more paughtraits," he wrote triumphantly to a friend. "I abhor and abjure them and hope never to do another, especially of the Upper Classes...
While this is the most important proposal in Yale education in the past three decades, the Yale faculty is for the most part a strangely silent group. Few professors comment in writing either way: if interviewed, they hastily mutter generalizations rather than specific suggestions. The reason for this is the strange circumstance surrounding the report. Griswold was on the committee, he wrote part of it, and despite a heavy silence from the president's house, the report is to a large degree a test of Griswold's power. Although he steadfastly refuses to push the plans, although he withholds...
...Berlin flag and surmounted by his black beret. All one day and all that night, tens of thousands of Berliners filed past. Among them were many East Berliners, clutching their free food parcels. "He was our Reuter too," said one East zone woman. Her husband could only mutter: "What will...