Word: shushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsibilities. (After the President's message to Congress, the Times applauded.) Editor Crowther, whose first outburst had been marked by well-reasoned rage, came up again with an ill-timed, ill-natured, ill-reasoned diatribe against U.S. military policy. At this, even the Daily Mail was moved to shush the Lion, suggest that enough was enough...
...enthusiasm. The newly prosperous, aided and abetted by soldiers and sailors on leave, not only jampacked the plush and gilt auditorium but indulged in ecstasies of applause. In fact, during the second night's Don Giovanni, indiscriminate applause became such a problem that Conductor George Szell had to shush his audience with threatening gestures...
...middle of their act, Charlie suddenly reared up, turned to Bergen and said: "Who the hell ever told you you were a good ventriloquist?" Bergen blushed, fidgeted, tried to put his hand over Charlie's mouth. "Don't shush me," Charlie continued. "I'll mow-w-w-w you down. You better go back to the farm and leave me alone. I'll get by, but you're all through, brother, all through." Charlie then turned on the customers and told them they were a disgrace to civilization. Bergen put him on a chair...
...good-naturedly returns to the rules. He goes to the movies at the White House about every fortnight, sits in the front row, and comments aloud about the picture. If he did the same thing in a public theater, it "would cause people in the nearby seats to shush...
Virginia-born Lady Astor, M.P., tried to shush a group of workers who were demonstrating against the recent release of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley (TIME, Nov. 29). They riotously hooted her on her way into the House of Commons. There, when she interrupted a debate, Laborite Emanuel Shinwell shouted: "Throw her out!" A Conservative Member complained that the Tories had had to "put up with" Nancy Astor for 20 years. When she applauded another remark with the usual British "Hear, hear," a Laborite cried: "Some of us would like to try." His colleagues cheered his rude suggestion that Nancy...