Word: whisperer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Center began a special program of publication. Its myriad volumes and journals have complete documentation and absolutely no bias. The publications speak scientifically and sanely, thus incurring the wrath both of the old temperance people, who prefer the fanatical scream, and of the alcohol distributors, for whom even a whisper is too loud...
...President of the U.S. develops a slight cold, a few sensation-hungry newsmen usually mix the germs with rumors and conclude that it is something far worse. Dwight Eisenhower has had his share of the usual plague of rumors. Before he got the Republican nomination last year, the whisper (planted by his political enemies) went out that he had heart trouble. A slight touch of food poisoning last spring was quickly diagnosed by the dopesters as a stomach ulcer. When he bruised his elbow last August, the story soon got around that Ike was showing signs of falling apart...
...there is Alan Ladd, an actor who, even in the squalor of a windjammer's brig, carries himself as if he were wearing a dinner jacket under his rags. Instead of Charles Laughton there is James Mason, who makes (whenever he raises his voice above its customary elegant whisper) a fetching younger version of Captain Bligh. The wishbone of contention between Ladd and Mason is provided by a chicken named Patricia Medina, who offers, to say the least, some pretty pickings. She is rather peremptorily picked, in the end, by Actor Ladd, when both have safely reached Australia...
...another time by a foot in hotels. Nonsense, retorted John. It was Esperanza's own "excessive drinking" that caused her to fall sometimes-and then she would blame her bruises on him. Esperanza said that John also cursed her (she repeated some of his words in a whisper to the deadpan judge) and once doused her with rubbing alcohol. Well, snapped Wayne, Esperanza neglected her household duties. Esperanza then told how John had once returned from a Honolulu stag party with a stripteaser's "large black bite" on his neck. And after one studio party, he came home...
...Emerson Hall, they still whisper when they speak of Smushwick. It seems Smushwick got his Ph.D. in Social Relations in only one year, and held down a car washing job besides...