Word: whisperingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with very few exceptions. Should The Times ever prove irresponsible, it would, after years of utmost solicitude, utterly disconcert the digestion of a vast Commonwealth. Likewise the editor of The Times. His position is well nigh that of a state official. His most private statement, his most guarded whisper, will, if overheard, be received with attention, credence, close scrutiny. Editors of The Times are therefore tight-lipped gentlemen, seldom heard from outside their own columns. But after they relinquish their duties...
...occasioned, attended, the death of his wife. Each day thereafter was marked- by the death, under identical circumstances, of one or more of those who had followed the body of the woman. People in the .section of the city-a poor one-where the deaths were occurring began to whisper a word whose horror, long laid in the earth, once screamed from every ditch, devastating cities. "Plague," they said. Health authorities acted. The Mexican Quarter was tightly quarantined. None were allowed passage through its streets, even in automobiles. None were allowed egress from the district except a few industrial workers...
...American League baseball grounds. No more peanuts, no more pop; beds will occupy the space that once contained bleachers; rubber gloves will replace the old saliva-oiled mits; and the palisades of the Hudson, that once echoed to the roar of ten thousand fans, will hear not a whisper, not a single cry of "Take...
...reduced and Britannia left free to rule the world's commerce. Sir James Arthur Salter, onetime Assistant Director of the Transportation Department at the British Admiralty, thereupon arose. Said he: "I assure you upon my honor. ... I have never in the most intimate private conversations heard a whisper of the kind of farsighted, long-directed, carefully thought out, carefully worked out policy of which I have learned this morning...
...journalistic trade sheets, advertising rises to truly heroic heights ; mere ink and pulp perform prodigious feats. Boosters, hustlers, live-wires, pushers, thousands of miles apart, loudly shout or quietly whisper, hint, insinuate, brazenly state or solemnly propound their messages across the page...