Word: sotto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repercussions came immediately, spread throughout the U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, whose dark red eyebrows are ranked third in Washington below Lewis' and Garner's, had a reporter reread Lewis' statement to him, chuckled heartily, said aloud: "That's too eloquent for comment," then sotto voce to a nearby reporter: "It's a sinful world." (Mr. Murphy and the entire press section of the Justice Department spent the rest of that day and evening, in hasty afterthought, insisting he had not correctly understood the statement...
During the waiting period, speculators taking the hint tentatively bid up commodities and stocks. When the day of the event arrived, the press, 125 strong, trooped into the President's oval office; they found it rigged up, as one reporter murmured sotto voce, like a college course in Economics 2A. At his desk sat the President, jovial as ever. Behind him was an easel stacked with charts. 'Primly erect, like a visiting professor, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau sat at one side, flanked by James Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Steve Early, Marvin Mclntyre and the usual Secret Service...
...more votes than the two-thirds required to invoke cloture and end the filibuster, but the filibuster nevertheless went on. Alert Walter White made increasingly anxious trips downstairs to confer with Senators in the reception room. One of his departures from the gallery was noted by Jimmy Byrnes with sotto voce sarcasm: "Barkley can't do anything without talking to that nigger first...
...Bros, last year. As such, it goes a long way to disprove the Hollywood theory that, given a free hand in selecting stories and casts, an actor's vanity is sure to lead him astray. Great Guy is vintage Cagney, exhibiting him at all the shoulder-punching and sotto voce wisecracking on which was founded his reputation as the cinema's No. i mick...
Lawyer Konta (sotto voce): "That's all it's worth...