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Word: whisperer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tramping ponderously into a crowded congressional caucus room, John spoke of death and terror in the bowels of the earth. When he mentioned the widows and children of Centralia's dead, his voice sank to a whisper. He cried: "If we must grind up human flesh and bone in the industrial machine . . . then before God I assert that those who consume coal owe them and their families protection. ... I care not who in heaven or hell oppose it. . . ." Roaring, whispering or hammering the table, he always swiveled back to his target-Krug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A New Way to Strike | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Guillet is a short woman in her middle sixties with an extraordinarily girlish figure, peroxide blonde hair, bulging green eyes and a seared, flabby face. During her poetic treatments, her normally rasping voice, punctuated by peals of raucous laughter, slips easily from a piercing falsetto to a husky, melodramatic whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In a High Wind | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...woman's voice dropped to a reverent whisper. "That's a scientist," she replied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long-Hidden Atomic Scientist Trapped in Quincy St. Bush | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

...actor is wrapped in a silk stocking and daubed with putty, sponge, cloth and "blood"). The theater has a secret recipe for blood; when the stuff cools it coagulates and makes scabs. Thrill-hungry customers in the small auditorium get a dividend when they overhear the hoarse backstage whisper: "Vite, Edmond! Warm up the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Murders in the Rue Chaptal | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...divorce in 1935 (Elizabeth now lives in Rumania and reportedly has grown very fat). A minimum of gossip has attended George's relationship with his British mistress (said a friend last week: "She really feels more like a mother than a mistress towards him"). Not even a whisper of gossip attended George's friendship with International Lawyer Fanny Holtzman. The redoubtable Fanny once heard it said that she had cooked a meal for George. She bridled: "The King of Greece knew where the saucepans were. When he came to see me, he broiled his own chops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: O Aghelastos | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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