Word: whisperingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan drawing room bloomed with soft red light. A company of people, stained with the same grave color, sat staring at a pair of red plush curtains. It was a breathless moment. Once the curtains, brushed from behind by a moving shape, vaguely stirred, and then an excited whisper rippled over the red room and vanished in diminishing circles of sound, as if a crumb had been dropped into a pool of claret...
...token of peaceful leave of those around him. He tried to pronounce the benediction, but was too weak. His thin, transparent hand moved through the sign of the cross with effort. He was certain of death; had been refusing all medicines. Towards the last, attendants thought they heard him whisper " . . .rien qu'attendre . . ." About two o'clock in the afternoon he went into a deep coma. The oxygen did no good. Kneeling and holding in the Cardinal's clasp a lighted taper was a nursing sister. Brother Hubert of the Community of Morey, kneeling, held the other...
...Luisa Tetrazzini canceled an engagement in Albert Hall, London. She could not sing, she explained, because she had taken a severe chill while vocalizing at the obsequies of the late Queen Alexandra. Last week she stood on the stage of Plymouth Hall and murmured in a rasping whisper that her cold had grown worse but that her protege, Luella Paikin, would substitute for her. Five minutes after she left the platform she broke down, summoned a physician, went...
Keith-Albee -- "The Everlasting Whisper", continuous, of course...
...between Saul and David, horns complain in the night; discords rise, resolve; figures whisper and stir in a camp of many tents. Saul goes to consult the Witch of Endor and a whirling wind of ghostly voices imparts to him foreknowledge of doom. Saul and his three sons die in the battle of Gilboa while the Israelites march ("The Lament of Gilboa"). A women's chorus of solo voices proclaims David King of Israel. David's humility has gone flying away with the pebble that burrowed in Goliath's brain; he swaggers and struts before the Lord...