Word: whisperer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nations capitals. What Hitler almost certainly wanted from Mannerheim was joint German-Finnish offensive action soon, probably against the Murmansk railroad, perhaps also against Leningrad. Stockholm sources predicted both offensives in a matter of days. But the Finnish radio, broadcasting the details of the birthday celebration, failed even to whisper the name of Mannerheim's exalted guest, and a Finnish spokesman, the day after Hitler's visit, said Finland would "continue to steer a strictly independent course...
...Washington there was not even a whisper about what the new order could do to recalcitrant Argentina. But everyone who wanted to look could see two interesting sidelights to U.S. import control: 1) agricultural Argentina has relatively little to export that the U.S. really needs (mostly hides, flax, linseed oil), and of all good neighbors, she has the most that the U.S. can do without; 2) Argentina also has an important merchant fleet of her own, has to that extent been independent of U.S. ships and control. With full U.S. priorities on imports, if Argentina wants...
...Philadelphia, were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under their own labels -plus an awed whisper from salesgirl to cognoscenti that they were really "Rosenstein's" -but in due course the Rosenstein label became too valuable to hide. Today in Manhattan, she sells to three or four other shops, but rights to her label belong exclusively to Bonwit Teller...
...groped painfully for the right word, hooked his hands in his pants-top like a Midwestern farmer, always looked funny in a hat, lived in a single room so littered with books that there was no place to sit. When he talked to his classes, in a soft, throaty whisper, he was hard to hear, sometimes hard to understand...
Just because the British people of Singapore acted like people, there was no reason to lay on their heads the exclusive blame for the rout in Malaya and the loss of Singapore. And yet all across the U.S. this week ran the disgusted whisper: Those British...