Word: whisperingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children by his cook. Author White points out that Southern white women themselves frown on lynching as a means of protecting their virtue, which Negroes protected during the Civil War, when white husbands were away. Lynchers, usually sexual perverts, seldom wait for confirmation of alleged attacks. A rumor, a whisper, a bloodthirsty suggestion by one of a crowd of street loungers, is enough...
...Greene never uses an alarm-clock. Instead she trains her companion to whisper, "I think perhaps you would like to waken now and get up." Once awake, Old Mrs. Greene feels too old, too weary, to arrange her own little walks, rests, games of "patience." She lets her companion arrange them. Dinner is the sacred hour; not then, not even afterward, can the companion express a personal opinion. Yet. the companion once breaks that rule. Although only 38, she says to Old Mrs. Greene, "I should like to die in the autumn." Startled, Mrs. Greene ponders the disparity of their...
...boring speeches," whispered the Prince, forgetting the broadcaster's electric ear. His whisper boomed aloud through the room...
...there for what the promoters insisted was "the world's welterweight championship." They had reached the eighth round when two men, not pugilists, started a fight of their own in the balcony. One drew a revolver. Nearby spectators scrambled away. In a moment there was general pandemonium. One whisper said: "Race riot." Another said animals quartered nearby for a circus had escaped. Another, seeing smoke from a photographer's flashlight, said: "Fire." The 10,000 spectators sought exits, not calmly. Many were trampled. One man, who fell or was pushed over the balcony ledge to the floor below...
...urged that Radcliffe build an art center of its own for its students, who "take up space" and who "manifest" an "apparently irresistible temptation to whisper" in "what should be a men's library...