Word: whisperer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Myth of Brattle Street is dead. The roads to Radcliffe are many and varied, but no longer will Harvardmen be able to whisper in a knowing way that the shortest path is along Brattle Street...
...Harrison deserted the cheesecake field to concentrate his efforts on a new publication which he entitled Confidential. Using the expose as the basic technique, he quickly proved that his idea was a sure winner. With such stories as "Georgie Jessel's Juvenile Janes" and "Pamela--the Churchill They Only Whisper About!", Confidential managed to increase its circulation from a modest 150,000 for the first issue to the present figure of almost...
...party had suffered a crushing defeat, its leader was aging and ailing, it was angrily divided between moderates and left-wingers. Before the delegates was a 30,000-word report documenting its failures. "We are an aging party . . . We are entirely failing to appeal to youth." But the whisper that went round the bars of Margate with the greatest insistence was: "Clem must go. If he won't go himself, someone will have to tell...
Much of the credit for the triumph must be given to actor Alastair Sim, who plays the double role of the Head-mistress and her gambler brother. Sim is better in the feminine half of his part, for which he assumes a towering wig, a hoarse whisper, and just the right mixture of cowardice and heroism. Joyce Grenfell is almost as funny in her role of a policewoman who looks very much like a horse but walks like an ape. As for the dozen or so of the Bells themselves, they are less expert, but on the whole quite monstrous...
...Murder in the Cathedral, with its far nobler picture of a man who had put aside ambition-even spiritual ambition-and found a faith so strong that he could joyfully accept death as its price: I have had a tremor of bliss, a wink of heaven, a whisper, And I would no longer be denied; all things Proceed to a joyful consummation...