Word: whisperer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hate to be an old bastard, but I want you to line up Lady Halpert and your Art section editor long enough for me to whisper something in their shell-pink ears. The reproduction of Knight's Farmhouse Gossip is a very poor copy of an original painting called A Secret. . . . The original was photographic in style and a hell of a lot better than the foul copy "originated" by Mr. Knight...
...Whisper. Newspapers, after that, were full of stories of a rift between Farley and Roosevelt, who finally summoned Farley to Hyde Park. After dinner they talked...
...said Roosevelt, "I am going to tell you something I have never told another living soul." Roosevelt dropped his voice to a whisper. "Of course I will not run for a third term...
...civilized the Russians, has made them wash and pull up their pants, has taught them how to walk like Europeans (some Russians from the steppes had a curious gait, left arm and left foot swinging forward at the same time). Now, whenever shots are heard from Russian barracks, Viennese whisper: "Aha, a Russian who likes the West too much is being liquidated...
...Russia, but who was far cagier in his report than Traveler Newton had been. G.O.P. White House-hunter Harold E. Stassen voiced his "sober optimism" that the U.S. could win the peace by remaining strong and being wise, and hoped that Americans "will never surren er to the insidious whisper of the inevitability of war." He also had something to say about the convention's business: "I wish to state simply and directly that I do not agree with" two of the convention's resolutions: 1) for withdrawing the President's special representative at the Vatican...