Word: whisperer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conquered France today is a gigantic sounding board for the shout of rumor, the whisper of fact. Last week it reverberated to an intensified campaign for collaboration with Germany. To Paris to talk with the Germans went Marshal Petain's "heir," Admiral Jean François Darlan, who then made a quick and mysterious trip to Beauvais (near which last year he met with Adolf Hitler) before going home to report to his aged chief...
...member of the German Department the Hostelers are bicycling their way through New England during the Easter Vacation.... "Gosh, did Franklin Roosevelt go to school here?". When politely, but firmly, told that FDR went to Harvard and that Harvard had no buildings comparable to Freshman Commons, the signed whisper came back, "But they have the reputation." -Yale News, April...
...immediately landed a better job at Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove. The Grove fired him for disappearing on long weekends to Palm Springs and Agua Caliente, and Mack Sennett hired him to act in some movie shorts. Prohibition booze gave him laryngitis which muffled his voice to a whisper, and he received a $3,000-a-week radio contract. Eddie Lang, his best friend and accompanist, died, and Bing wound up making pictures for Paramount. He seemed listless, but his income always increased...
...Suppose I transferred some of Mary to the mastoid, would it have any influence on the man's mentality? Would it send him seeking Mary in whatever far-distant corner of the earth he had encountered her? Suppose he subsequently developed tinnitus [ringing in the ears], would voices whisper 'Mary'? Would the skinned portion of Mary be replaced with an undecorated regrowth. . . .? Would I be liable for damages in this event...
...modern Raffles struck Harvard last night when, without causing so much as a whisper, fifty tickets of admission to a Bellboy dance, which will take place tonight, were stolen from a box in the main entrance of Lowell House...