Word: shushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read a manchette that set them to reminiscing about the great battles between Anastasie and L'Oeuvre. With the Censorship again slashing through the French press, L'Oeuvre had printed in the broad white space to the right of its mast, in tiny letters, the word Chut! (Shush...
...calling Washington and London. At teatime people start dropping in: friends, ex perts and refugees. She almost always goes out to dinner, or has a flock of people to her apartment. She seldom talks anything but world affairs and seldom stops talking them. Her husband has been heard to shush her after hours of it. When she is alone again late at night, if she is worked up about something, she will sit down and write a column at white heat, and these columns are usually her best...
Arthur took revenge the best way he knew how. Said he over the air, before the BBC could shush him: "OUR Askitoff is no good. It burns holes in concrete. It wiped out six families in Birmingham. It won't remove anything from nothing...
...once in sonorous harmony, the majority leader and presiding pundit of the U. S. Senate, Alben Barkley and John Nance Garner, last week continued to shush debate on U. S. foreign policy. When they began doing it two weeks ago G. O. P. Leader McNary winked, congratulated "Dear Alben" upon his adroitly prolonged adjournments, tipped off the fact that Republicans were no more anxious than Garner Democrats to step out against International Defense...
...Rayburn, Majority Whip Pat Boland picked 15 assistant whips to help keep the 332 Democrats of the House in order. Rules given the subwhips: Four of them must be on the floor of the House at all sessions; all of them when important measures are under consideration; they must shush the Majority whenever it threatens to lose its dignity, become loud and boisterous; must forewarn the leaders of revolts brewing; must keep Democrats from signing petitions to discharge unwelcome bills from committees; must, above all, not allow the formation of blocs...