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...almost a sotto voce footnote, Attlee declared that China's rulers maintained "far too many delusions about the West," but by and large, he had "been impressed by certain very definite reforms that, from all we could gather, marked a new departure in China." Attlee said that there was "evidence," although he cited none and admitted there was really very little, that "you have [there] a government that is incorruptible, that is genuinely working in accordance with the principles believed and has done some very remarkable pieces of work, a government based on the good will of the peasant...
...Soviet camps, Yurasov writes, all singing is forbidden. But the prisoners often sing sotto voce, occasionally raise their voices to a full chorus. Known from Karelia to Kamchatka is the song...
...with a fat bundle of notes in his pocket. He began reading: "Senator Brewster's story is a pack of lies and I can tear it to pieces if I am allowed to cross-examine." Senator Ferguson, his patience wearing thin, turned to the press table and said, sotto voce: "He's a hard man to be nice...
Dewey had accepted the headdress, being careful not to put it on. "None of this St. Calvin stuff for me," said he sotto voce, remembering how Calvin Coolidge had looked in turkey feathers...
...head of the conservatory of music at the College of Wooster (Ohio), Professor Gore divides the church music he scorns into two broad classes. One kind is "soft purrs from the organ, a gentle humming from the choir, hymns sung slowly and glueily and ... a maudlin ditty played sotto-voce on out-of-tune chimes," the whole being calculated to "lull the listener into a dream state." The other kind is erotic music calculated to excite the listener into a state of unholiness...