Word: whisperingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shall I decline to whisper pleasant trifles...
...point General Andrews was being pressed to explain how 875 out of 10,000 prohibition agents had been discharged for cause. In a whisper Senator Harreld (dry) interposed...
...according to Percy Rockefeller's testimony) his capital share thereof. The implication was that Percy Rockefeller, who had recommended the leasing, had personally profited by $50,000, the partnership third of Mr. Pryor's brokerage fee. "But only in a sense," hearers of the admission were good enough to whisper to one another...
...that it is absolutely innocent of plot, and that the words put in the mouths of the actors are too flat to make up for the commonplaces of the action. Everything happens according to the good, old, established school of countless colorless comedies, and the spectator is tempted to whisper "I told you so," at every well-known incident. If ever there was a man who likes to get back to the root of things, Mr. Maltby has shown himself to be such when looked upon in the light of the jokes resurrected from their honored, and, I had hoped...
After a paroxysm the dying man went on: "Two--two others know It--Mrs.--Harper--Bates--they-- know--" And there was, they say, one last whisper: "Mother." Bottled lilacs scented the room...