Word: whispering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clause that the Houses to be built with the money be lived in--dormitories which read like Aladdin's Fairy Palaces? Even the magazines for the tables have been minutely listed, to avoid slighting any individual taste. A secret suspicion occurs to us--can it be--softly, while we whisper--perhaps it is only Harvard's pride in its "indifference" that is offended! It may be that they are resenting this assumption that they are like any other students, that their welfare must be looked after by benevolent despots, and that there is a chance that a number...
...Annex" to such an extent that it can provide no Fine Arts books or photographs for its students? Their presence in what should be strictly a men's Library is most of all annoying because of the space taken up and next because of the apparently irresistable temptation to whisper which these ladies manifest...
Seemingly petite and girlish Señora Sandino (see cut) was kept constantly under surveillance by "Lieut. Brownlee." Not a tick of her telegraph instrument, not a whisper in her office, not a letter in her mail escaped "Big Feet...
Last week in Providence, R. I., and in the half-dozen towns surrounding, the whisper softly passed around. In smart houses it caused slight comment. But in little houses where shirt-sleeved fathers read the papers every night by the centre table, the whisper was tense, freighted with excitement. "Elphege Daignault will repent. The neighbors told...
Copley at 8.30--"The Whispering Gallery". The also whisper downstairs at this, which is a good thriller. Has just been put on in New York...