Word: whisperer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lining, she steps before the gold-spangled curtain and gives a wild-riding reading of Witchcraft, her pelvis bumping out the rhythm, her copper-red hair whipping over her face. Her big-bodied voice can flare to an exuberant shout or sink away to a foggy, muted-trumpet whisper. Occasionally, as she sweeps her almond eyes over the ringside tables, she lets flutter a throaty, tongue-trilling sound that suggests nothing so much as the invitation of an amorous cobra. Within the framework of That Old Black Magic she sings a medley of songs -Hold Him, Joe; Matilda...
...that Mme. de Staël "wanted to put him on guard against himself" and to play the part of mistress-adviser to him. But the Consul already had his eye on sylphish Juliette Récamier, wife of a Paris banker, had sent Minister Joseph Fouché to whisper in her ear: "The First Consul finds you charming." When, after Napoleon had become Emperor, Mme. Récamier still shied away, Bonaparte engraved her name forever in his so-called Great Book of Suspects. Just to top off the awful insult, Mme. Récamier became the bosom friend...
Third. Take a tip from supermarkets. "Mark your aisles and your departments clearly with names the consumer understands. Then he won't have to sidle up to the man with the gun and whisper: 'Where can I get a loan?' Display what you have to sell, not money itself, but what money can buy. I doubt that even the most enticing display of $100 bills would persuade one man or woman to rent your money, but a display of air conditioners might...
...understands its members, he can sense the mood of the Senate as have few men before him. One time Republican Leader Bill Knowland announced to newsmen that a bill, which he supported and Johnson opposed, was going to win by nine votes. Later, Johnson leaned across the aisle to whisper to Knowland: "Bill, we don't need to have a roll call on this. I've got you beat by three votes." He did, too. Says Lyndon Johnson: "I usually know what's going to happen within the first 15 or 20 minutes of the day." Johnson...
Filing past out of the chamber, member after member paused to whisper to Thorneycroft, rest a hand on his shoulder or otherwise show their support. Thorneycroft had obviously abandoned neither his hopes of winning his anti-inflationary fight nor his ambitions as a prospective Tory Prime Minister. Last week he advanced both those hopes appreciably. The government carried off the debate by a 62-vote majority, and Peter Thorneycroft voted with his party. But in resigning, Thorneycroft had come close to winning the fight he had lost in the Cabinet. For many of his fellow Tories had voted...