Word: whispering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Happiness clerks had been thinking of how to avoid disappointing customers who, because they see candy counters, soda fountains, lunch counters and, in five stores, complete restaurants, expect a full line of drugs. Customers whisper, their faces impassive as possible, hygienic and illegal requests to the Happiness clerks. The clerks on such frequent occasions are embarrassed. Frankly they explain that at their counters they have only bromo seltzer, aromatic spirits of ammonia, bicarbonate of soda and epsom salts, nothing more...
...Caboose, graduate student from N. Y. U. who hates undergraduates, will wear pince-nez glasses and a soiled collar. And Johan Wisteria, former student of the drama at Yale, the Tubercular Cough in several plays by Eugene O'Neill, will be identified by his stage whisper and his inability to diagnose approaching rupture until it has been carefully explained...
...faint shudder ran through the ranks of the unenlightened when the Reading Period would be repeated in the high and far off times when Seniors would be wearing gowns and Yard concerts were the vogue for Brattle Street. But a whisper followed and as it ran, smoothed the ruffled brow and calmed the palpitating hand. For the Reading Period would come in May, and in May Radcliffe would come again to Harvard. All was well; though reading assignment and thesis pluck at the heart of the courageous, yet even when the trial was hottest they would gain sweet respite...
Pity the poor bootlegger, whose life is harried by occasional federal drives and less frequent local campaigns. Pity him when home, brew gains adherents, in spite of Mr. Volstead; but most of all, consider his lot when the very mouth he supplies turns to whisper against him. Of all those among whom he plies his nefarious trade, rumor has it that the student is most addicted to his wares; that the student should bite the hand that feeds him, or more strictly, act against the man that gives him to drink, is incredible...
...election-first whisper of vox populi-was in New Hampshire. Only 11 delegates were involved, but all came out instructed for or partial to Candidate Hoover. Senator Moses, a charter subscriber to Hooverism, polled the highest vote. One Everett R. Rutter, the sole would-be-delegate in favor of Calvin Coolidge, was defeated. Only four years ago when Senator Moses refused to run as a Coolidge delegate he suffered the outstanding political defeat of his astute career...