Word: whisperingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlantic coast, one last week from Scotland hovering outside New Jersey, and one in the last few days from the West Indies sailing for Rhode Island. Only the boldest, hairy-chested sailors may apply to man these ships. On the smaller fry, motor-boats that steal out at the whisper of a radio, there is a place for hard, ham-fisted nondescripts who can plant a heavy blow and shoot a sawed-off shotgun. Gunmen out of work will find employment here, for close encounters are frequent. It is a glamorous life, full of the very smoke and reek which...
...conversation or animated discussion on some point in their text-book. Discussion is very good in the right place, but we would remind these zealots that it is impossible to study while there is such an aggravating noise as is made by a conversation carried on in a loud whisper or in an undertone. April...
...Abolish Silence Signs. The raucous voiced wits who disgorge their night's adventures across the broad tables should not be subjected even to a moral injunction to whisper. To accommodate them further, we might even make the tables narrower, so that such conversationalists and controversialists may not be inconvenienced by bending over in each other's direction...
...itself a typical melodrama, and Mr. Mack would have done better if he had revised his play in the places where the dialogue smacks too much of "The Tavern". In an intensely melodramatic moment in the last act, Bruce Norton ends his speech by uttering in a hoarse whisper "Damn him!", and the doctor hoarsely whispers back "My God!" Whereupon the audience bursts out laughing. Nevertheless melodrama is melodrama, and it would never do for the heroine to talk pidgin-English without a steady flow of "damn" and "hell". For the audience loves...
...responsibilities of your opportunities!" But the struggle to follow the line of least resistance continues, regardless. It is still possible to plunge into the fight, pledged to History, Government, and Economics, and emerge four years later scarred but triumphant, clad in the spoils of Paleontology and Indic Philology. Whisper to someone that such and such a course meets only once a week, in the basement of Lawrence Hall, has no final examination, and no term reports,--and half the college will pack the doors into Lawrence, to register for it. Such strategy, to paraphrase, is magnificent...