Word: whisperingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over," said Mr. MacDonald, in a mock tragic whisper...
...quite easily have been made at home, bilious in colour, and in pattern vegetarian like his diet"; Beerbohm Tree, who could never quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile invention posted prompters under tables, behind rocks or ancient oaks, so that the elusive word might be whispered to him as he moved in well disguised anguish from cache to cache,-a curious floating method not unlike that of ectoplasm"; lovable, whimsical Barrie, the little master of Thrums, of whom the story is told that once, wandering over to Bernard Shaw's table in the coffee room...
...fade-out follows rapidly. One assumes that Capt. Daingerfield picks up his hat and stick, and leaves in a dignified manner. Rita falls into Haggerty's arms. "'Oh, you are too strong,' she confessed with a half sigh. 'Too strong,' she repeated in a whisper, 'Thank...
...what is essential is pacifism, active pacifism, as long as peace lasts; the impressing on those in power of the complete absurdity of war." That is simply sublime. It is worthy of a great humorist. "Active pacifism" this said in a loud forceful voice, then whisper "as long as peace lasts...
...official statement of which plays are naughty and whether they are really naughty. In spite of this, the city is filled with a mighty hustle and hurly-burly of reformers, and a general movement of those who might be responsible to get out from under. With the first delicious whisper of sin, there came the sound of drums and whirring grindstones and lo, some seven self-constituted investigating agencies appeared in full panoply of war, headed by that battle-scarred veteran, John R. Sumner, the superintendent of the Society for the Suppression of Vice...