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Word: whisperingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiancee his return to the land of the living, believing that she should not be tied for life to a broken anchor. Vilma Banky, Viennese blonde, and Ronald Colman play the parts. Miss Banky seems a singularly felicitous and decorative addition to the ranks of California celebrities. The Everlasting Whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 26, 1925 | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

With haste and fervor Herr Stresemann, thrusting that trade treaty sop at the importunate Tchitcherin, stayed not upon the order of bolting for his train. On the platform stood the British, French and Italian Ambassadors to Germany, their faces wreathed in smiles. They whispered into the ear of Herr Stresemann. Then they shook his hand and that of his colleague, Chancellor Luther, who was also going. As Herr Stresemann clambered into his compartment, yet another pair of lips spoke quick and soft in his ear. They belonged to Monsignor Pacelli, the Papal Nuncio, who had come to whisper the deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tchitcherin Travels | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

...Georgia Congressman Upshaw is not regarded as carrying on the tradition of Toombs, Stephens, Ben Hill and Gordon, since his nickname is 'Pshaw.' That he should speak of law enforcement above a whisper seems to show a lack of any sense of humor, since the enforcement of the 14th and 15th Amendment would certainly de prive him of a seat in the House of Representatives and give him an opportunity for usefulness in spraying the boll weevil on a Georgia cotton plantation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: PROHIBITION | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...would have consulted the Delphio oracle to learn the meaning of the strange, portentous words the scroll contained. Today the Freshman needs no seer or prophet. The scroll is blank, for he himself shall write the words that give it meaning. That vague desire for greatness which seems to whisper of some latent genius; is as yet an unharnessed, a random, undirected urge. The great problem of every young man is to find himself, and college is the most likely place to make the discovery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO MUCH FOR THE ROPES | 9/24/1925 | See Source »

...serve as a nurse in the Cherbourg naval hospital. A severe wound forced her to leave the service. She was awarded the silver Medal of Honor. Flammarion made her his partner, collaborator, housekeeper. On Sept. 9, 1919, he married her. Their wedding caused the worthies of Juvissy to whisper the inevitable ribaldries that occur to the vulgar whenever an aging celebrity marries a young girl. It is only recently that the public has learned the part she actually took in his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Madame Flammarion | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

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